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Published: 2009-12-10 22:04:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 12678; Favourites: 485; Downloads: 0
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The last weeks i’m playing around with Vue 8. And finally i found the time to finish up a pic. The new clouds in Vue 8 really are a bit better than in Vue 7. It still takes ages to render them… but they look good. This picture probably is 75% Vue and 25% Photoshop. I used Photoshop to tweak colours and atmosphere. As well as lighting and fixing some weird render results. Especially edges and such things. Smoothing them out. I also painted a few highlights in and added some subtle textures.Render Info:
My machine is a i7 920 and 12gb ram. For a 3000px wide render it took 4hrs and 30mins to finish. So yeah. Detailed clouds still are time consuming. And i doubt that will change. The terrain was a procedural. Which needed some time too.
Hope you like it as much as i do!
3000px wide – photoshop – vue – intuos3
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Comments: 68
I love the clouds!! Thanks for taking the time to render this image.
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This is a breathtaking scene! The clouds and jagged mountains are amazing. The whole image has a grand and sinister feel.
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One of the most realistic cg skies I've ever seen, no doubt it won't be long at all before we cant tell the difference. Good stuff
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depending on your cpu power it's already possible. but without a renderfarm it can easily take eons for it to render. 
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das möcht ich doch mal in wirklich groß sehen!
echt gut! respekt!
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Beautiful scene, love the camera angle, very nice
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Wow just 4 hours rendertime, you must have a hell of a workingstation
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Wow.... I thought it was a real photo.... Beautiful!!!!
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This is very nice
Can you make a 16:9 wallpaper of it?
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thanks bud. there is a 1680x1050 on my site
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Wow! So incredibly realistic. A lovely scene, the kind I sometimes dream of flying thru.
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the only thing i could say &think at the moment i saw this was just: WOW!
The fog is like a white, thin patchwork quilt over the mountains
and then the sunnlight
JUST WOW
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für ein play around ziehmlich beeindruckend
was genau ist vue? so etwas wie terragen?
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eigentl der direkte konkurrent. allerdings von grossen vfx studios eher anerkannt als tg. sehr viel flexibler und ähnlich gute resultate wie tg2.
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ist es leichter zu bedienen? tg1 konnte man ja noch sehr leicht ein paar
basics machen die man dann bearbeiten konnte. bei tg2 hatte ich da arge probleme.
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tg2 is ein backstein im vergleich zu vue. brauch seine zeit, wie jedes andere tool auch. wenn man allerdings schon ein paar basics im 3d bereich drauf hat... sollte man ganz gut reinfinden.
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can u pls post a bigger one, at least 1200 px in height for use as wallpaper?
that would be great.
ps. really love ur artwork!
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i have a wallpaper on my site
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Nice one - looked like a photo until I saw the larger version. But it's pretty close!
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12GB of RAM. WOW. (dd2 or dd3?)
I have 8GB but always want to upgrade - rendering always seems to take ages.
Awesome piece, I downloaded the vue 7 PLE edition and am really enjoying it. Might try and do something this awesome shortly.
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I need to get myself a copy of Vue and a tablet...
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My computer would probably take a couple of days to render what took your computer 4 hours. I'd say you'll be ok
As for the piece itself, I'd have to say that this is my favorite of your recent submissions. The highlights on the clouds are the perfect touch. I'm also digging the sharpness without oversharpening, very nicely done.
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Yeah, the reason why I almost never use spectral clouds is because they take forever to get just right and sometimes the results aren't worth waiting the render times. I recently rendered a clouds-only test scene with 3 spectral cloud layers and only at 1400x875 it took over SEVEN HOURS to render at 'final" quality with very little quality boost in the atmosphere. Needless to say, after I finish rendering another more complex atmopshere (which I'm assuming will take around 9 hours, so I'd better do it when I go to bed) I won't be touching spectral clouds much more often. For ground-based scenes often a volumetric atmosphere with some painting over it is good enough anyway 
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Hye man nice work with photoshop! Your Vue clouds are a little weird though, they seem just a bit too splotchy, turning up the detail amount should do the trick! But nonetheless, you're getting the favourites
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i had a mix of clouds here. raising detail value created holes in my cloud carpet and i didn't find a way to fix that. the basic layer had 100% and the smaller ones 600% detail. it's all the balancing. you could tweak a render forever and it's still not 100% right looking
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very true. A good artist is never happy with their work
You're right about favourites, especially once you get so much exposure you're likely to get an influx of favourites "just because"...
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Sorry, I have nothing useful. I like the highlight of the clouds kind of *in* the mountain, the sunburst and the colors.
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that's alright 
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Yeah, that silver lining is really nice.
The next one in this series should be a study of that effect.
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