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Published: 2005-07-24 09:10:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1360; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 131
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Made in Terragen. Terrain by Rids. Thank you!This render took about 125 hours, as near as I can figure. I was sweating blood by the time it finished. Was it worth it? I leave that to my gentle viewers. I am satisfied with the results, well, almost. I'm not too crazy about the water. But I'm not going to do anything about it. It's finished.
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This beautiful art has been featured here [link] & [link]
Thank you!
Lorrie
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Thank you, and thank you very much for the many wonderful comments.
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well, if you want my humble opinion, i find the rays of light to be the most disturbing, mainly because there is no way it could ever possibly look like that. I think the water is nice, for once that water in Terragen doesn't look too terragen-ish (cuz that's the problem with terragen, when you do something with terragen, there's no way you can make it look like it wasn't made with terragen, that's the big problem with most 3D landscape programs)
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Actually, you are quite right. You don't get rays like that in real life. This is a fantasy landscape. I usually do about 50-50. As for things looking like Terragen, yes, they do! That's actually not that unusual. Even before programs, artists had styles that were readily recognized, and they had tools that determined how their art would look to a large extent. But the more you learn Terragen, the more you can get different effects, and then it starts to look more individual, in my opinion, anyway.
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Superb...
I'm happy you *didn't* try to make this one realistic. I wouldn't change a thing about it, including the water.
apt title
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Thank you so much! That one took a long time to render, though not nearly as long as the one I made in TG2. This one took, I think, 31 hours. I love to make abstracts and fantasy pictures. I do about half and half. Thanks for the favs you gave me, too!
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Whats up? This is still a stunning deviation am glad now for the time you took rendering it.
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Thanks! I felt it was worth it to bite the bullet and accept the long render.
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Llooks great!
...I also think the "water" looks brilliant, almost like mercury.
125 hours though, maybe you could do with a hardware upgrade (RAM/CPU?)
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That was my reaction. I don't think I'll ever do that again. I will figure out a way around it. Thanks for the comment!
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was worth the wait though
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Wow, what a stunning image, those rays look really beautiful, this was well worth all those hours. Terrific work 
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Thank you! Wish I could always be that spectacular. I'm working on it.
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Dang it! You know how to do rays! This is amazing!!!
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125 hours? I don't know if it was worth it. Considering what could have been done in afar shoter amount of time. It seems that the render time shouldn't be that long. Colors make a difference And if the field of view is wide also make a difference in render time. Sorry I have to vote no . Though it is a very striking deviation I think Other deviations suffered in the 125 hour render time. Kind of unusual for me huhn.
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I tried cutting down on the render time, and I found additional short cuts later. I don't think colors or field of view had anything to do with it. I think having 20 high clouds did. The water took forever, even though I took out the depth. I think if I had narrowed it down to a cloud height of 3 or 5, it would have looked the same and taken much less time. I will be testing that theory.
It's fine for you to dissent.
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You're welcome, and thanks for the fav. But not to worry about my render being at the expense of other renders. Right now, I'm more in a mood to put aside creating art for a little bit and get caught up on some projects.
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Ok !!! it still was a very striking deviation and I expect your projects will be just as fantastic.
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Thank you! I am sort of taking a hiatus. I am experiencing some burnout, and that's the best for me. My brain will have to percolate in secret for awhile.
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Exactly what I was after. Thank you.
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Thanks! I thought it was worth it.
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Beautiful!! 125 hrs.!!! My word!! I would have been stressed myself. The result was worth it though.
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Thank you! I was hoping people would think so.
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You and do great Terragens. This is one of the best I've seen.
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Wow! Thank you! I work hard at it.
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Thank you and thanks for the fav (though I haven't seen it yet).
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Cool light beams.......... a end of the world scenario ?
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