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Here’s my latest attempt at creating a tropical water scene. Had to do quite a bit of photoshopping to get it looking right but I’m fairly happy with the result.

water was a dreamscape surface with a surface underneath for the ocean floor
foreground water was rendered separately due to memory constraints
vray sun/sky/physical cam used
rocks were created in vue
yacht modelled in modo
bushes were purchased from turbosquid
palms were free from marlin studios
clouds were hand painted in photoshop

Comments and crits welcome!

Regards,

Rob.

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tee hee - lovely stuff mate.
Although on a first glance the water is a bit rough? Other than that lovely stuff.

Can just imagine sitting there drinking rum.

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The thing that sticks out to me is the amount of smog on the horizon :slight_smile: The sky should be clear, blue on blue

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I agree with the above comments… the ocean could use a little les choppy waves… its to rough to fit the scene well.

But oh how nice your water is… i would love to see a setup of it.

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Thanks guys, great crits as usual! I’ll tone down those waves and remove the standard vray sky for a photoshopped one with less haze.

Here’s the settings for the water surface…

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trust me, i live in the caribbean and ive been begging for less fog in the vray sky so i can get better images

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..I thought that was just the effect of having too much rum… :wink:

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i live in a city with over a million people and the vray sky has too much fog for my skyline.

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Nice, reminds me of a nearby small island called “Palominito”

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werticus - I think we should start a petition for ‘vray tropical sky’…

rmejia - wow, you live near here? Fantastic, you’re living my dream! I notice your Island is a lot flatter than mine, will have to squish mine down a bit.

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I live in Puerto Rico, it’s the bigger island to the left of Palomino and Palominito. To the right of PR there are a couple of very lovely British Virgin Islands. One of them, Virgin Gorda, has a beach called “The Baths” which is just amazing. Don’t know if people from the UK go vacationing there … it’s a little far away from home 8)

Maybe you could also add a couple of islands farther away in the image.

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mines quite flat too

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..well if all you caribbean guys have flat islands then I’ll be damned if I’m going to be the odd one out!

Here’s my revised image - replaced the vray sky with a dreamscape sky and toned down the waves a little. Also had a play with the bump on the water too - just to get a bit more detail in there.

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wow!

the island itself looks just a bit off…dof maybe?

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Thanks ene.xis. Maybe the island is too crisp and bright. I’ll try and put a little blue fog over it.

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how about this one…

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Rob,
It’s looking great, but if you don’t mind me saying, I still think that the waves are way too choppy, and i think it’s down to the scale.

The water is the foreground is amazing - looks great.
However, i’d expect the waves to be visibly almost flat by the time your eye reaches the boat, and practically no height variation at all by the time your eye reaches the island (if that makes sense). So you’ve said there is loads of noise layered up - can you reduce the largest noise map over distance? perhaps do a distance blend in the camera z direction, leaving it as it is in the foreground, and basically flattening it over the distance it takes to reach the boat?

It’s a beautiful tranquille image, but the choppy waves are making me think the weather isn’t as nice as suggested! some sort of wind!

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that one looks definitely better!
but i must agree with sv…those choppy waves make me think that the palm trees shouldn’t be that straight!:smile:

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no worries guys, I shall continue tweaking… I’ll get there… promise!

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“A three hour tour, a three hour toooouuuur…”

Nice choppy ocean! Nice water! No wonder you’ve been sooo quiet…