Mountains with V13 beta Ambient Occlusion

[ericsh6]

I rendered this with multipass (4 passes) with occlusion sampling at 20%. It took 35 minutes to render.

I am so grateful to the Hash team for AO. Even teh vegetation looks great. There is room for improvement and I welcome it. Now one thing, I wasn't able to render with pixel displacement and ambient occlusion - the computer memory gets completely consumed and I reported this. What you see here is bump in V13beta but bump in beta looks way better than v12 I think.

[3DArtZ]

Nice looking work.... I could see it on a discovery, or history channel program!!!

 

I hear that theres gold in them there mountains!

 

 

Mike Fitz

www.3dartz.com

[oakchas]

That's something else! Looks great! A:M has certainly come far! To say nothing of your modeling, which looks really great, too!

[Dark_Jedi]

great job! definentaly superb

[the_black_mage]

cool but to really see what AO did show us what it looked like befor AO.

[ericsh6]

Thanks everyone for the encouragement!

 

I made a few fixes to the model since my last post - getting ready for the final render of the 15 second animation. I can't wait till v13 netrender is available - or is it already available? Anyway, here is the scene without AO and the scene with AO as requested. In the scene without AO I have the default choreography light setup (one key light for the sun with ray traced shadows and one key filler light which I think I had too much intensity).

 

In the image with AO, I have one kleg light with ray traced shadows and AO at 100% intensity, 100% occlusion and 15 samples.

[the_black_mage]

that settles it AO rocks...