Show Us Your Dawn Renders!

[Rae134]

A lot of movies and tv shows use coloured lights for moods too.

 

[Ken1171]

Indeed they do, though not always successfully.

 

[mininessie]

you did a great use of them...and i don´t think that coloured lights are a wrong idea...only they need to be well used...and you did!

 

[Ken1171]

Thanks, Mininessie! ^___^

 

[Faery_Light]

I was trying out a new texture I've had on the back burner and a new light, props set I got on sale.
I love this set!
It took all day but the render is finished and I like it.

 

[mininessie]

Looks great !

 

[Miss B]

Nicely done FL. That prop set looks nice, what is it?

 

[Faery_Light]

DMs Vertigo at Renderosity, it a DAZ Studio set.
I love it!

 

[Miss B]

Ohhhh yes, that's their new one that just came out.

 

[Faery_Light]

It was on sale and might still be.

 

[Miss B]

I don't use the latest version of DS, so can't use it, but it does look nice.

 

[Hornet3d]

The beauty of the flowers were only part of the thrill for the subtle scent sent Caoimhe's mind spinning back to the first time Turlough had bought her flowers, something of a rarity on her planet, a surprise gift at the time.

Scene - Easy Environments - Tree of Life 02 by Flipmode

Flowers - Tulips from Lisa's Botanicals with Sweetheart Textures by NapalmArsenal

Material for clothing - Fabric Frenzy-Cottons Vol. 1 PBR Textures & Poser Shaders MR by Deecey

 

[Hornet3d]

I do a lot of part renders before I settle on a final render but once done I rarely return to a render but I wanted to play with Ezdome a little try some of the flexibility it provides. Up to now I have only really used the illumination form the dome but I wanted to try letting EZdome add the sun and play with the lighting from there. Here are a couple of reworks.

In both of these I have used the dome outer dome for the illumination and the added sun to provide some fill in.

I am not sure the balance is right but it does show potential I think. One aspect I do like is the reflection using the dome gives to the eyes.

 

[Faery_Light]

I like EZDome for many of my renders.
The ability to use the sun is a plus.
I need more outdoor scenes for it that have like pastures, mountains, no buildings so I can place mt BeJeweled horse in it.

 

[Hornet3d]

I like EZDome for many of my renders.
The ability to use the sun is a plus.
I need more outdoor scenes for it that have like pastures, mountains, no buildings so I can place mt BeJeweled horse in it.

When I started playing I used just sIBL but more recently I have been using HDRIs from HDRI Haven and I have tried some of the domes from Flipmode's easy environments over at Daz3d, the latter need to be purchased of course. HDRI Haven has some lovely skies and nature scenes with either no building or buildings that a way in the distance, many with just trees either close or at a distance. The way I use them, which may be wrong, is I run EZdome and then change the image map from the sIBL for that of one of the sources and then reposition the sun to match the new image. This may be wrong as I am just making it up as a go along and just seeing what the effect the changes have on each render.

 

[Ken1171]

One of many advantages of EZDome is that it creates a closed surface for rays to bounce of, which can speed up Superfly renders. In my tests, I needed way less SF pixel samples when using EZDone.

 

[Hornet3d]

One of many advantages of EZDome is that it creates a closed surface for rays to bounce of, which can speed up Superfly renders. In my tests, I needed way less SF pixel samples when using EZDone.

That is very true, many of my Superfly renders are faster than my firefly renders used to be, both CPU based so a fair comparison. I render in progressive mode so if I am not sure on the samples I just set them high and stop the render when I feel it has 'cooked'.

 

[Faery_Light]

Yes, I change image too and adjust the sun position to match.
I love it!
Of course if I'm doing a render that need a transparent background, I use the hide features in properties leaving show in ray trace on.
I still get the lighting that way,

 

[Ken1171]

Oh yes, there are some things that SF can do that even Octane Render cannot, such as hide light sources and the background dome so they don't show in renders. All we have to do is uncheck "Visible in Camera" on the properties tab, and render. On the downside, however, SF lacks shadow caster and micro-poly displacement, so it's still not the full experience. I have asked SMS is it's possible to integrate these features into SF without waiting for the next full point version, and they said yes. He also said SF is not Cycles, so they could implement these features independently if they exist in Cycles or not - which is even better news - though this new dev team may be too "green" to have it done at this point.

 

[Hornet3d]

Oh yes, there are some things that SF can do that even Octane Render cannot, such as hide light sources and the background dome so they don't show in renders. All we have to do is uncheck "Visible in Camera" on the properties tab, and render. On the downside, however, SF lacks shadow caster and micro-poly displacement, so it's still not the full experience. I have asked SMS is it's possible to integrate these features into SF without waiting for the next full point version, and they said yes. He also said SF is not Cycles, so they could implement these features independently if they exist in Cycles or not - which is even better news - though this new dev team may be too "green" to have it done at this point.

Miss B was saying in another thread that Snarly has added a shadow caster function for Superfly in the latest version, V1.5. Nice to have in Superfly but this could be a solution while we wait.