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Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:43 pm
by enricocerica
Hi,

Working on a new scene (well an old one deeply revisited), I experimented a way to have a quick rendering solution for fog and all in all, the result comes out not so bad.
Who will guess how I achieved that ?

octane_villa12.jpg

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:50 pm
by steveps3
possibly a massive cube which you have then made almost transparent?

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:02 pm
by RayTracey
Looks very convincing! Very curious how you achieved this effect

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:15 pm
by TBFX
A large cubic volume with a specular SSS shader (not what I'd call quick) so probably a series of semi opaque planes at various depths?

T.

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:41 pm
by ROUBAL
The usual easiest way is to composite with a render made with Z buffer (Depth kernel), but as a border is neatly distinguishable on the front of the house, I would think also that it could be a serie of planes with small alpha.

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:12 pm
by icelaglace
Mostly thinking about a mesh too as you can see the delimitation of it very clearly.
And I agree with ROUBAL, best is to use the z-depth buffer to do that. :)

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:44 pm
by p3taoctane
NOt sure about the fog ... BUT I LOVE the three stripey people in the corner... I need a close up of them to make my card crashig woes less angerful. : > ))

Nice!!!

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:57 pm
by manalokos
for fog you don't need a massive cube but only a tiny plane in front of the camera with a specular material and scattering node.

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:06 am
by evo
very nice result! ...i'm waiting... :D

Re: Attempt to quick fog solution with Octane ...

PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 3:30 am
by TBFX
manalokos wrote:for fog you don't need a massive cube but only a tiny plane in front of the camera with a specular material and scattering node.

NICE! I'd always thought you needed a volume as the scattering medium didn't work without one, but that works a treat!

T.