Some tranquil test settlement

[Oshyan]

I love the series - Spring is my favorite, it has the most appealing lighting. A very nice mood. Winter is pretty cool too. But man is this a flat landscape! Like the salt flats in Nevada or Utah, hehe.

For the grainy shadows in the water, do you have Soft Shadows enabled? If so, try increasing samples very high and do a crop render to see if this helps (e.g. try samples of 30 or something). If it does help you can tune the setting to try to achieve acceptable render time and quality. If not, then you may be right that it is a limit of the underwater detail rendering, which would only be solved by very high detail settings (e.g. 2 or 3!), which is probably not practical.

- Oshyan

[GioMez]

Very nice! I expecially like the winter version..

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i like the winter version the most, the frozen ice/ melting ice/ water is impressive.

[Dune]

Thanks for your comments, all. I have made some more versions; see here: www.ulco-art.nl/digital.html (Dutch, I'm afraid). These overflows make them especially nice.

---Dune

[inkydigit]

real nice slideshow Ulco! (echt mooie!)

[Dune]

Echt mooi.

[inkydigit]

oops!...its been a long time, and my Dutch was very minimal!

[Henry Blewer]

I like this site you made Ulco. The images are great.

[otakar]

The additional renders are all very nice. The last one offers an interesting perspective and the atmosphere is always so well set up.

[Dune]

One last render then. Then I'm fed up with this sequence. I'm getting deeply into modeling, so I haven't posted much lately. One of my own Stone Age farms is in this last render, replacing the one Henry was so kind to work on. And I added a dilapadated tree.

---Dune

[Henry Blewer]

Looks really good. I wish my models had worked out better. I just could not seem to grasp what you were looking for. Lightwave Modeler is far superior to Blender, it was better in 1990 when it first came out.