There you are... by DigitalOrigami

DAZ|Studio • Science Fiction • posted on Mar 28, 2017

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So I bought AtmoCam for Iray during one of the March Madness thingies over at DAZ. *sigh* I realize there's a cadre of people who eat, breathe, and sleep this stuff, but for us part-time amateurs it would really be nice if people would include INSTRUCTIONS with their product. It's a fine product, to be sure, the renders on the store website look beautiful, and lots of people swear by the product and produce beautiful results, but 5 vague sentences does not a manual make. Nor do a lot of us have time to hunt across the internet hoping someone has put up a tutorial on using this thing (my google-fu is weak and gave me no help). It strikes me at first blush as one of those "solutions" that require so much effort to learn that by the time you figure it out you realize you can do it all manually and no longer need the product.... End of rant. I'm sure it's a fine product and some day I'll be singing its praises, assuming I can figure out how to use it. Or have the patience. This image ended up being sort of a mess, but it does have that b-grade 80's sci-fi/horror movie poster look about it that I kind of like.

Comments (10)

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giulband

9:59AM | Tue, 28 March 2017

Great fantasy and beautiful style !!

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X-TC

11:26AM | Tue, 28 March 2017

I feel your pain! Not only do I have atmo-cam (and kind of struggled with it 'til the point I simply gave up on it), I found that volumetric lighting overall is a pain in the trunk. Originally I'm coming from Cinema 4D where I used volumetric light effects on every single picture I rendered. Oh well. Just in case you want to have a look, I found a quite nice tutorial / scene on the webs, it's uses Stonemason's 'Enchanted Forrest', but you can adapt it to pretty much every other scene setup as well. Here's the link to the tutorial (you will find the scene as a dropbox link there, too).

https://www.moonscapegraphics.com/single-post/2016/02/11/Adding-an-Atmosphere-in-Iray

Hope this helps, it did help me at least to understand how D|S is faking volumetric lighting :) Good luck and looking forward to your next pieces of art!

Oh, I like your image anyways, twisted, dark, evil. My heart dances and sings like the lunatic I am :)

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mightymysterio

12:38PM | Tue, 28 March 2017

A lot of products that should have manuals don't. Somehow this gets through the QA check. It makes me wonder how many people who buy these products actually use them . . .

That said - this is a great render. It reminds me of a late 1980s anime OAV brought to life.

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rajib

2:11PM | Tue, 28 March 2017

Ruuuuuuuuunnnnnnn !!!! Fab render. Her pose and the glowing eyes work well together to scare whoever sees her.

Yup, so true... It's a pain...

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DigitalOrigami

3:06PM | Tue, 28 March 2017

Thanks everyone. I do get a little frustrated with stuff being presented (or me inferring) a "one-click" solution. I don't mind experimenting, but I need a baseline to start from (i.e. these things produce this result) that I can fall back on. Thanks for the link, X-TC. I will be reading that thoroughly after work. :)

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