Forest

[Mor]

Insipred by recent images with plenty of plant populations I also tried mine. First renders crashed and I had to remove some populations and more carefully limit population areas.

Objects used:
- Birch tree from terragen.org
- All 3 versions of generic pines by Marc Gebhart
- 3 different bushes from Mr. Lamppost's basic bush pack
- 3 different grasses from Mr. Lamppost's basic grass pack
- Grass01_1, Grass01_2 and Grass01_3 (Not sure if these are Walli's?)
-Walli's DNW-flower

With 0.7 detail and AA 6 1920x1080 took little under 5 hours to render.

[Henry Blewer]

Very lush! I like this. I also have trouble with populations getting too large. More memory and faster CPU's please!

[Dune]

You woudn't need the grass (e.g.) to cover the whole area. Replace it by displacement/color in the distance, or use a painted shader to paint where you really need it. Also check the 'camera/pov thing' to keep pops within the viewing angle. That saves a number of instances. But perhaps you know these things and really need more memory indeed.

[Viktim]

It looks very good! especially the grass.

[inkydigit]

a lush,verdant scene, well done!

[Mor]

Thanks for comments again! I'm currently running TG2 on 1.9Ghz intel core 2 duo, 4Gb ram and win xp. This image was mostly a test how many populations my system is able to handle.
I made some changes to the grasses and in the end of render I noticed that the grass patches didn't render at all and found out that I had accidentally deleted their blend shader and use blendshader was checked But after all I think this is more natural looking now.


(You can see full size version by right clicking the image and selecting show image)

[sjefen]

Hi Mor,

I think the image is really good and natural looking, but there is one thing bothering me. I think the shadow areas are to dark for a bright sunny day like this. May I ask what are your GI settings are?

- Terje

[inkydigit]

very nice update, agree with sjefen about the shadows/GI

[Hannes]

Beautiful. Maybe the overall blueish color is a little bit too dominating?

[Kadri]

Nice image , Mor 

[Mor]

Thanks for commenting! GI settings were 2,2,8, i.e. default. I agree with the darkness of the shadows now as you mention it, I didn't pay attention to it before. I'll try different settings to improve the lighting (any suggestions or tips?). I think I also found the reason why this image crashed few times. There was one 0 too much on one population size, so it caused huge amount of instances  I optimized the population areas to be as small as possible and tested rendering it with 1280x780 and it took only 1.5h. I'll continue tweaking this and post update if I get improvements done.

[sjefen]

I don't think this is the "correct" solution, but if you try increasing the "Strength on surface" in the Enviro light and see what happens.

- Terje

[dandelO]

I think the second one is just lovely. Well done, very nice!

[Gannaingh]

The second one makes me want to go outside and run around in the forest!

[choronr]

From the start; and, your latest revision, you've got some beautiful work going on here. I would suggest you reduce the blue sky density; and, maybe increase the decay a bit. Also, maybe elevating the sun a few degrees.