Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Nice, how does the render speed of the sky part compare to the terrain? 
>  I assume the sky is quite a bit slower?

   Yes... although not much more. A solution I figured out for quick 
skies is to choose a fixed sun placement and render a spherical map of 
the media clouds to use it later on the scene with the same sun 
position, but it needs very high resolution images. Rendering a decent 
skymap can take several weeks... and it only serves for a concrete sun 
placement.

   BTW, I used 3 intervals, not 2 as I said before.

> Is this randomly set up or did you select the composition manually?

   Almost totally random, as I added an optional main seed to generate 
individual seeds for each feature. In this one I've manually selected 
the terrain and fog colors, the sun placement, and the diameter and 
center of the vegetation area (based on the camera placement, which is 
random, as it should be!;)

   There is something very addictive in trying seed after seed until you 
find a nice setup... I'm using the animation features to get a different 
landscape on each frame, so I can let it automatically render many low 
res tests, to latter chose the best ones and tweak them manually.

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Jaime

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