...though it's a tree that's naked.  And the horse isn't wearing
anything either.

This is more or less an image I threw together on a whim, thought
it'd look neat if I did this and that, played with it for a day,
ended up with this image which took 58 mins to render.

Needs hoofprints on the snow. :P

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
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> ...though it's a tree that's naked.  And the horse isn't wearing
> anything either.
>
> This is more or less an image I threw together on a whim, thought
> it'd look neat if I did this and that, played with it for a day,
> ended up with this image which took 58 mins to render.
>
> Needs hoofprints on the snow. :P

Cool! (pun not intended) That's a really clever idea for an image.

It would look really good with a complex lumpy bark texture on the wood nymph
(well that's what I assume she is), I'm thinking something like Christoph
Hormann's tree stump image, but that might be a little bit difficult! :)

Also I suggest making the horse's hair slightly shiny, and using media fog to
get shadows from the trees.

That should help increase your render times... ;)

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
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  Nice one, I like the atmosphere of this image.

   ~Steve~


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Tim Cook wrote:
>
>....though it's a tree that's naked.  And the horse isn't wearing
>anything either.
>
>This is more or less an image I threw together on a whim, thought
>it'd look neat if I did this and that, played with it for a day,
>ended up with this image which took 58 mins to render.
>
>Needs hoofprints on the snow. :P
>
>--
>Tim Cook
>http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
>
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Nice look & feel! Makes me grab my jacket.

If you're using the poser texture for the horse, try adding a rough granite
normal to the mane & tail to help mask the hard edges. Ideally they need an
alpha mapped transparency, but that requires too much work :-/

The granite just adds enough roughness so it's less noticable. (And
actually, the mane is usually darker than the fur, not lighter)

RG

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gonzo wrote:
> If you're using the poser texture for the horse, try adding a rough granite
> normal to the mane & tail to help mask the hard edges. Ideally they need an
> alpha mapped transparency, but that requires too much work :-/

Yeh, I looked around and found some better horse texture maps, so will
redo it with those...and I'll change the fog to a media fog as Tek
suggested...

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> Yeh, I looked around and found some better horse texture maps, so will
> redo it with those...and I'll change the fog to a media fog as Tek
> suggested...

Just thinking, you could try my snow include too and put some snow on the
trees.
http://www.oyonale.com/ressources/english/sources12.htm

G.

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