The coloring on the clouds is gorgeous, and I know how tricky media can 
be to work with.  That is quite an accomplishment.  One thing thing that 
catches my eye though is the difference in color and light between the 
individual clouds.  Is the light source fairly close to the clouds, or 
are the clouds on the left side of the image in some sort of shadow?

Skip


Jim Holsenback wrote:
> Looking at my earlier post of this scene I'm not 100% sure what I was 
> thinking (color scheme). I like this one alot better, so thanks for the 
> gentle nudge from comments.  I was able to get the scattering media in the 
> clouds to fire up better by using a light_group for the clouds with 
> global_illumination off .... I rotated the light sources 180 degrees from 
> orginal positions, so I guess the scene is no longer looking east a sunset. 
> I got that idea when reading about the type of scattering media I was using 
> as being directional ..... (3.6.2.1.3  Scattering) *snip* ....largest when 
> the incident light is anti-parallel to the viewing direction. RTFM as they 
> say!!!! The cattails and grass are the same basic shapes with different 
> scaling applied. The shells on the low tide area are just squashed spheres 
> with specular and roughness settings to give a large highlight.
> 
> Jim 
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