Ok gang, i sent gebe a pm the other night about how to go about this. She said to go ahead an post it to see what different opinions we can get. Firt off I am wanting to make scenes that will be in total nighttime. The only light would be from the full moon that would be present. I know I will have to use lots of grays, purple's, and dark bue hues. Also, this set will eventually become animated. The scenes themselves would be a wood covered road. I am looking similar to the scenes from the begining of the Move Donnie Darko ( which are shown with the next few messages) I want to make thes myself just looking for some tips on how to build the scenes and to make them work with the night. Thanks.

sorryt he images are so dark but, I haven't had much time to play with the capture software I used for this

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the last pic posted will not be difficult to do other than the fact that it is part of the the scenes that I am wanting to create

The images you show above are not total night time. If you want to do something like that, just select or create an appropiate atmosphere. If you want the moon to be visible, choose the moon from plantes and make it full. You may then lighten your mountains or whatever from the moonside with a directional, NOT VOLUMETRIC light, so that the light source itself becomes invisible, but lightens from behind.

Now, in the case you want the moon to show in the sky and if you want not only silhouetes, add another, blueish or grey directional light from the opposite direction to give some relief to the mountains and vegetations.

Hope this helps.

:-)Guitta

You should ask yourself who will see your future pictures : - mostly PC users with a monitor gamma setting of 2.2 - mostly Mac users with a monitor gamma setting of 1.8 For instance, I'm at work with gamma setting of 2-2.2, your photos above are rather dark. But at home I have now a gamma of 1.8, your photos will appear not so dark to me. The best is to adjust your monitor setting to the setting of most of the future viewers, before the beginning of your work. That just my 2 cent opinion :3 monthes ago I experienced a problem seeing nothing inside a dark picture, it was due to my default monitor setting of 2.2 ;=) Yves

I'm most interested in how you end up making the road that winds through the mountain. I've a few ideas, but am too unsure of myself to actually suggest them. :)

runwolf, don't forget that we have a tutorial section in our faq. Just search for "create a sipmle road".You can apply this to any terrain. Guitta

Gebe I understand that these scenes are not at night time. I am just wanting recreate a similar terrain and use it in a night time setting. I apologize for the lack of information on my part. I do have the visions of the scenes that I want stuck in my head. The biggest thing I want to recreate is the pics #1, 2. The road and the surrounding banks are what is crucial to me. YL I knew the images would be dark and rather grainy.These are scenes from a DVD that I ripped for examples to try to explain what I am attempting to do. I will attempt to play with the settings a bit and try to get brighter pics next time.

Drop an IM to SAMS3D (Sharen). She has created great roads:-) Guitta

runwolf13 I already hav the roads from Sams3D. I thought about that when I came up this idea a while back. If memory serves me right I think gebe had told me about it too.

If you have the road already, then just do it:-) Guitta

The above was just a 1 minute sample;-)

LOL, thanks for the example gebe

Your pictures are not dark at all !!! But they will appear darker to all PC users . That's what I was trying to say ;=)

They don't seem dark to me Yves:-)

hi all got another question that just got brought up. before I had to reinstall due to a crash lastweek I could import .obj files. been trying to import some of the roads files from Sams3D. now when I import all I get is the spinning ball and then after a few minutes vue tells me it cannot read the obj file ??

Make sure you have updated your Vue copy to 4.12 or, at least (that's the minimum) to Vue 4.11, but 4.12 is better.

I am using 4.11, been waiting to see how the new patch effects everyone else. I have never had this problem before, usually it imported just fine

ok, jsut did the update and it imports the obj's hurray !!!!

Guitta I remember that your gamma setting is 1.8 (like me) so you have not the default PC settings ;=)