A few changes ..... I added the boardwalk in the foreground. That served two 
purposes: broke up the emptiness of the fore/midground and provided a much 
needed depth cue. I rotated the main scene light (10 x10 area light) 30 
degrees more, that allowed the light to make it past one of the higher dunes 
on the right side of the scene and made some cool foreground shadows near 
the boardwalk. I relaxed the normal on the water (perhaps AA smoothed it 
just a tad too much) but I think it's still okay. I was also able to play 
with the fog definition a bit so it doesn't look as saturated and fake as 
the previous version.

"Red sky at night ..... sailors delight!"

Thanks everyone for the feedback that enabled me to work out the kinks ..... 
I'm pretty pleased with this version!

Jim

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Jim Holsenback nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/02 06:55:
> A few changes ..... I added the boardwalk in the foreground. That served two 
> purposes: broke up the emptiness of the fore/midground and provided a much 
> needed depth cue. I rotated the main scene light (10 x10 area light) 30 
> degrees more, that allowed the light to make it past one of the higher dunes 
> on the right side of the scene and made some cool foreground shadows near 
> the boardwalk. I relaxed the normal on the water (perhaps AA smoothed it 
> just a tad too much) but I think it's still okay. I was also able to play 
> with the fog definition a bit so it doesn't look as saturated and fake as 
> the previous version.
> 
> "Red sky at night ..... sailors delight!"
> 
> Thanks everyone for the feedback that enabled me to work out the kinks ..... 
> I'm pretty pleased with this version!
> 
> Jim 
> 
> 
> 
Nice, if a little dark.
Realy like your clouds, much more natural looking now.

-- 
Alain
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"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message 
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> if a little dark.

perhaps .... no sure but I think I've noticed a difference between 
light/dark (contrast) from the last release to the current (non-beta). Has 
anyone noticed this?

> Realy like your clouds, much more natural looking now.

Thanks!!!! I'm going to play with cloud settings for different times of the 
day so I can use my clouds in others scenes.

Jim

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