"Squall" by ratfugel

Terragen • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Oct 25, 2013

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Description

This started life as a nice little landscape, then the rot set in. I decided to try for some heavy clouds with shafts of sunlight coming through. As I piled on the various layers of cloud I realised something different was happening, it was looking like it was about to rain! No fancy shafts of light, just heavy cloud at various heights. However, I had something on the screen I'd not seen before - I' d made what looked a bit like a rain squall! It hit me that any rain had to be seen on the water. How to do this? Simple. Lower the quality settings until I had lots of visible noise on the water which could possibly be raindrops. As a picture I think it's absolutely useless, but as an exercise in cloud control I think it paid off. You tell me. rat.

Comments (9)

ronmolina

1:20PM | Fri, 25 October 2013

Well done!

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ia-du-lin

2:14PM | Fri, 25 October 2013

like the clouds and atmo.

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LindaPerryMcCarthy

3:21PM | Fri, 25 October 2013

Beautiful mood piece. Love the clouds and light. Very nice!

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giulband

5:28PM | Fri, 25 October 2013

interesting image

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peedy

11:59PM | Fri, 25 October 2013

Fantastic! I am not going out! :-) Corrie

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EyeOfTheBeholder

10:11AM | Sat, 26 October 2013

You've captured the effect beautifully,well done.

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Danny_G

4:27PM | Sun, 27 October 2013

Pretty cool effect if it was completed in a single render, I have questions 1) how did you split the sample quality between the water and clouds/atm? The clouds are obviously of a high render setting possibly raytraced (Theres 0 Grain??) The rain drop effect was created using very low samples as you described. This baffles me. 2) Whats up with the dark shadowy line just above the horizon line as well as the atm decay colour rising into the clouds ? This is a mystery to me, it would be helpful to the TG community if you posted this on Planetside. I'll wait for the post there

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ratfugel

5:25AM | Mon, 28 October 2013

Oh dear, there's always one, isn't there? When will people realize that we do these images for entertainment, not for techno-geeks to dissect. Me, I'm just a wandering minstrel, pleasantly pleased and prepared to share with whatever I meet on my creative journeys. rat.

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