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The Monument

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:32 am
by grimm
I have been playing with instancing and having a lot of fun. Trying to learn Blender better too. I'm thinking of adding in some more rocks around the monument. I also wanted to add some other plant life like ivy but I'm having problems with the ivy generator plugin for Blender. Thanks,

Jason

Re: The Monument

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:45 pm
by steveps3
attached ok (when I refreshed the page)

Re: The Monument

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:28 am
by grimm
Thanks Steve,

Still experimenting, this time I tried out some HDRI lighting. Made some changes to the grass and monument textures so they blended better with the HDRI. Lots of fun.
With HDRI background/lighting
With HDRI background/lighting

Re: The Monument

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:02 pm
by grimm
Here is the final render and now I'm going to work on some other ideas I have. :) Not real happy with this one anyway. I'm finding it real hard to control the blue light like I want it. My poor GTX460 was working hard on the render too, only 590,000 samples per second. Must be because the grass has a glossy texture and all totaled there are about 50,000 instances of grass and straw.

Jason

Re: The Monument

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:51 am
by grimm
I couldn't help myself I had to play with it some more. :) I'm liking it better now, added some bloom and glare. Also played around with the camera settings, too much fun.

Jason