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Hello!

Here´s my weekly project 03..

I have felt the need to improve my exterior/nature skills for a while and thought it would be good to do a few nature mini-projects.
There are still improvements to be made.

3Ds Max & Octane Render.

Fantastic.

Can you tell us what the setting is? Render time?

These are wonderful, they look just like photographs!

Awesome stuff!!! well done mate.

can you shed some details on your workflow?

specifically:
-Rocks are mesh? or a detailed scan with displacement etc?
-Hero vegetation (flower specimens, tall herbs etc) are these commercial (xfrog etc). and did you scatter (phantom or otherwise)
-Grass: field; is this a series of small clusters scattered over the ground surface? or something else?
-Grass: Hero Shot, this looks incredible. did you start with a mesh then texture it for this shot? or is that a close-up of the detail on your grass proxy model? the colour change on the larger blades is beautiful!

Perfect. Yes - give us more details.

Sorel wrote:These are wonderful, they look just like photographs!

Thank you very much!

Scottiefeng wrote:Fantastic.

Can you tell us what the setting is? Render time?

I used PathTracing without changing anything. Rendertimes were probably around 20min@4000-6000px, I´m not sure, I hit render and went away and did something else for a while

prehabitat wrote:Awesome stuff!!! well done mate.

can you shed some details on your workflow?

specifically:
-Rocks are mesh? or a detailed scan with displacement etc?
-Hero vegetation (flower specimens, tall herbs etc) are these commercial (xfrog etc). and did you scatter (phantom or otherwise)
-Grass: field; is this a series of small clusters scattered over the ground surface? or something else?
-Grass: Hero Shot, this looks incredible. did you start with a mesh then texture it for this shot? or is that a close-up of the detail on your grass proxy model? the colour change on the larger blades is beautiful!

Sure!
- Everything is 3D geometry except the background on the image with the gravel and one plant.
- I used Forest Pack (inside 3Ds Max) to scatter everything and yes, they are commercial models.
- The ground surface has both some noise and displacement and the vegetation is scattered on top of the displacement. It´s random size clusters, not individual grass strands.
- Thanks! These are a couple of clumps of grass strands (each look slightly different from another) that are then scattered. Then I manually placed a few closest to the camera to get the look I wanted.

smicha wrote:Perfect. Yes - give us more details.

Thank you! See a bit further up for more details.

If anyone wants to know anything else let me know

Cheers,

fantastic image. Can you tell us more about the grass shader (mix shader with diffuse + glossy) ?

Rickky wrote:fantastic image. Can you tell us more about the grass shader (mix shader with diffuse + glossy) ?

Thank you! I´ve attached a screenshot of one of the grass materials, very basic stuff

I´ve uploaded a short breakdown of these 3 image on my Facebook page, check it out if you´re interested!

Here: http://www.facebook.com/danielreuterswardvisualisation

Inspiring stuff!