Aye, thanks for the awesome material Tjohn, but alas, I just don't think a water plane will cut it for this scene. The water is comprised only of terains, now. But I'll save that water for another day...! I really need the geometry adjustments this time that a plane can't give...

DVD, I'm kinda going for a fantastical quality to it all... Similar to some of my older images, but with a darker, more angry (read : orange) feel.

Incarnadine, tell me if the AA render is still too crusty for ya? I was going for turbulence, really...

This render took about 5 hours, which is fully HALF of what it took before, so I think that my optimization process is working well... I forgot to take the actual SPRAY terrains (separate from the water terrains, and different mats) in the previous renders.

Is this any better? (Also, I changed the POV and increased the render size slightly, so a half-as-much-as-before render time is more like 4/10ths or so, some ratio like that...)

Message edited on: 12/28/2004 14:29