Ground Cover Mashup :)

cyphyr · April 17, 2009, 01:33:55 PM

Ground Cover Mashup

Made a mashup of my ground cover plants. Going to use them in my bluebell wood render over the weekend. The lighting by the way is two enviro lights, one set to AO and one to GI.
Render time 2.15
1~11~3~3~8
richard

RArcher · April 17, 2009, 01:40:49 PM

Now that's some great lighting going on there. Any chance of smoothing out some of the ferns fronds somewhat or at least making it look a little more natural? Also possibly add another very very small scale powerfractal to your dirt layer and you would have a complete render right here without adding it to your forest scene.

*edit* not the close fern but the one with the larger leaves.

MacGyver · April 17, 2009, 02:24:11 PM

I agree, this is already a worthwhile scene

Mohawk20 · April 17, 2009, 04:19:50 PM

Amazing realism in light! Nice foreground fern.

Saurav · April 17, 2009, 06:50:18 PM

Great lighting. Small displacements on the soil would help improve realism.

cyphyr · April 17, 2009, 07:05:15 PM

Crits noted guys, thanks

Here's another version with the recommendations you made.
ta

Richard

old_blaggard · April 17, 2009, 07:05:39 PM

As others have said, fantastic lighting! The plants themselves are very nice, too. Great job!

Hetzen · April 17, 2009, 07:10:23 PM

Stunning work.

dandelO · April 17, 2009, 07:25:27 PM

Woah! Great job, man!

sjefen · April 17, 2009, 07:31:13 PM

That is very, very nice.
Can I ask what your GI settings are for this one?

- Terje

cyphyr · April 17, 2009, 07:36:22 PM

Sure, the GI settings were 3 ~ 3 ~ 8, detail and AA 1 ~ 11.
I think however the trick was the extra Enviro Light. The first was left at default (Global Illumination) but the second was set to ambient occlusion, seems to provide a nice fill light.
Richard

sjefen · April 17, 2009, 07:47:29 PM

Thanks for the info.

I just thought that since you have so much GI (3,3), you may get more detailed shadows if you reduce the GI blur radius to 2 for example.
I don't know how well you would see the differens in this scene, but it is something I would try.

- Terje

cyphyr · April 17, 2009, 07:50:31 PM

Just starting another render so I'll try that, let you know in a couple of hours

Richard

cyphyr · April 18, 2009, 10:58:07 AM

Well here it is, I took sjefen's advice and dropped the GI radius to 3, the shadows are definitely sharper, but not too sharp. I also in this version saved an exr, ran a default tone mapping on it in Photomatrix and layered in on top of the default bmp output at 50% opacity.
enjoy
richard

Naoo · April 18, 2009, 11:13:41 AM

Hi

Great realism!

ciao
Naoo

Ground Cover Mashup :)

dandelO