McFearsonButte

[Henry Blewer]

This is a test image for the VR challenge. It needs more work, of course.

[TheBadger]

nice rocks and feel and color. This would be interesting to see. Very crisp kinda look.

[Kadri]

Yes looks good.

[Mohawk20]

The plants do look very large, due to the low camera. Would it look better if the camera was a little bit higher?

[Henry Blewer]

I was thinking about bringing the camera higher.  I always keep the camera low for working on the shaders. It is so easy to make the close areas of the terrain look very rough.
I added some more clouds on the next test; the far part of the sky seemed too empty.

[Oshyan]

I was wondering if the plants actually look *small* (I did not check in a pano viewer though). Fruiting cactus of this kind are generally large-ish, and especially the ocotillo can often tower over a human figure. Maybe the sizes are just mismatched.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ocotillo&biw=1366&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWivmTpMPLAhVD-GMKHd99DNcQ_AUIBigB

But yeah it looks nice otherwise. I love this kind of environment.

- Oshyan

[Hannes]

Great Henry! Don't know much about these plants, but the whole scene looks very nice to me.

[bobbystahr]

nice start, inspiring

[Henry Blewer]

Thanks for the feed back.

I have this quick render which has more plants and some more clouds. I will be doing a better render while I am at work.

[Hannes]

Nice Henry! I'd strongly recommend GISD (which I always do!) to make the shadows less flat.

[Henry Blewer]

Last nights test render. I added some more plants, and clouds. The cumulus clouds need some work. More objects to come.

GI Cache Detail 4
GI Sample Quality 8
Occlusion Weight  1.5
Bounce to the Ounce 1.85

The settings are default values.

[Hannes]

Much better imho. The fake rocks have some strange bright edges. It seemed to be there in your previous version as well, but less visible.

[Mohawk20]

The fake rocks have some strange bright edges. It seemed to be there in your previous version as well, but less visible.

My guess is it's because of a slope constraint of the dark sand/dirt  layer.

[Henry Blewer]

I had the camera exposure set much too high.

[bobbystahr]

I had the camera exposure set much too high.

never good to exposure self, heh heh heh...and no I'm not sorry///yet'