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Example
No. 2 - "Golden October"
Now
3D clouds are not always desired. Also are the settings from Force
Majeu not applicable in any situation. The lighting of the scenery
seems to be the largest problem in many cases, especially when
the sky should be cloudy all over. This time we're not discussing
a picture which has participated in any constest. The following
picture received much praise though, in various forums and galleries
and had only best rankings at renderosity.dom. Here it is:
golden october (c) 2001 Brunker, Kleiner, Basinski
This piece of artwork was jointly developed by three Artists,
Peter Kleiner, Martin Brunker and myself. Peter Kleiner is responsible
for terrain and water, Martin Brunker for the design of the surface
map and I did the sky and athmoshere.
Looking more closely at the sky - with regards to the settings
discussed above - you may wonder how the scenery is lighted that
well anyhow. Well, in sceneries like this, you will need to settle
for a compromise with Terragen: you refrain from using volumetric
lighting. The option "clouds cast shadows" must be switched
off. Unfortunately, Terragen only allows for weither volumetric
OR ambient light.
It's not really bad, though. But in no cases you would see any
sunbeam, then
But in regards to the clouds there's still some more things to
discuss. How dod you do the effect of golden glowing clouds, but
still remain dark in some part? How do you simulate the dark-blue
reflection of the atmosphere in the clouds? How do we achieve
the mighty coming out of structures in the clouds?
Let's do it the way we did in the previous example. Here are
the settings:
Clouds
Dialogbox
| Sky
size |
10000 |
| Altitude |
650 |
| 3D |
checked |
| Depth/Thickness |
8 |
| Cloud
color |
171,
98, 24 |
| Darkening |
55% |
| Density
Contrast |
18 |
| Density
Shift |
39 |
| Persistence |
50 |
| Largest
Cloud Size |
largest
setting |
Atmosphere
Dialogbox:
| Haze |
85%,
81m |
| Atmospheric
Blue |
10%,
1552m |
| Color
of Atmospheric Blue |
32,
74, 192 |
| Decay |
30%,
3691m |
| Decay
Color |
218,
171, 71 |
Lighting
Conditions:
| Terrain
Casts Shadows |
checked |
| Shadows
in Atmosphere |
checked |
|
Clouds
Cast Shadows |
unchecked |
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| Direct
Sunlight Tab: |
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| sunlight
Strengh |
600% |
| Effect
of Atmosphere |
100% |
| Realistic
Sunlight P. System |
checked |
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| Background
Light Tab: |
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Multi-directional Shadow Lighting |
checked |
| Shadow
Lightness |
21.16 |
| Diffuse
Sunlight |
78,
57, 32 (braun) |
| Light
from Above |
33,
50, 93 (Tiefblaßblau) |
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Reverse Light |
68,
80, 80 (blasses blaugrau) |
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| Sun’s
Appearance Tab |
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| Disc
Diameter |
0 |
| Corona
Size |
0 |
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| Lighting
of Atmosphere Tab: |
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| Glow
Amount |
54% |
| Glow
Power |
84% |
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