Upon request from several members, here is the technical data relative to my latest gallery entry 'Octobre' * Machine : PC Athlon 1.4, ram 256, video ATI 9000 * Softs : - Greenwork's X-Frog 3.5 Lite (to model the main plant) - Robert Mc Neel & associates's Rhino 1 (to explode it and remove some unnecessary parts) - E-on software's Vue4 Pro for setting up atmosphere, terrain, some standard plants and final render - Irfan skiljan's Irfan view 3.85 (for 80% Jpg compression) The original custom X-Frog file is 52 K (converted to 3DS : more than 12 Megs) Settings in VUE : Camera : Focal 70mm, Blur 8%, Focus 201, exposure -0.23 Atmosphere : Standard model, Ambient 2%, sun 98%, 2cloud layers: streched cumulus and puffy cumulus,fog 13% no haze . Custom skymap. Textures: All textures are custom procedurals, no photo was used anywhere. Render settings : Custom : Hybrid 2.5 for blur 20 passes , normal object antialiasing,low texture antialiasing ... render time 23hours and some.. (Even with maximum passes, Hybrid 2.5 shows 'vibration-like artefacts in Dof ... tried Ultra mode with raytraced Dof and obtained Strange grainy artefacts in Dof plus almost total dissolving of foreground plants... 49h56'16 rendertime ... No postwork at all : straight out of Vue. Hope this answers the demand. if there is something I forgot and you would like to know, I'll be glad to add precisions. Thanks to some for thinking it was a photo-montage it is too much credit really even if it is precisely what I was after in doing the picture ;) Paul.

Incredible, simply incredible. Thanks for the clarification, i really appreciate it. ;-)) Walther

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Excellent information and very impressive work. Very well done.

Hey, that is really great work..

Yikes! My head is spinning! I didn't even know that Vue had some of those settings. Very impressive indeed!