Men Kalinan - revisited by RedSteve
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This is another render from the Spaceport of Men Kalinan. I was much inspired by Rochr's awesome work - the master of lighting!
The original render ( http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=250756&Start=1&Artist=RedSteve&ByArtist=Yes ) suffered from some problems with repeating artifacts in the light beams.
I discovered how to get rid of the problem, which is to set the lights to have 100% soft shadows. The problem is that this pushes the render time up to stupid values. The orginal image took about 2hrs to render on a single 1.8Ghz PC - this version, which has 35% less pixels, took 4 P4 2.0 Ghz machines 82 hours!
I had some helpful suggestions on the last render from some other artists on how to deal with this issue, but unfortunately, to get the effect I want, this seems the only way. Unless anyone else has any more ideas?
Comments (23)
Euxeb007
Excellentissime SF scene
Flak
Ooooh, very nice lighting and a very very good image. At 82 hours, I'd say its definitely worth it :) Hot 20.
gerry_g
Ace. don't matter what program you run in, if you want premium volumetric effects you have to set very high values ;-)
RedSteve
Thanks to you all for your very kind comments. I'm feeling lots happier about the time it took already. There is more sci-fi on the way!
antje
I love it!! Excellent space scene!!!
ITAK
I very like spacing around and of course lighting excellent!
RobertJ
A shame about the rendertime, is it worth the picture it created, i mean 82 hours and you needed 4 machines running at 2.0 GHz.
gsb
This one is more than excellent! Congratulations!
Kate
This is huge! what a great POV and mood....excellent
sweetlizard
just so great, incredible...
Rochr
Simply awesome!!! The place looks gigantic and has just the right atmosphere! Love the idea with all those ports at the left. And of course, the lighting is superb! A very fine scifi piece! :) Deserves a vote! :)
Sking
Very good image RS. Wonderful composition and the lighting is very well done. Well done. ---- Scott.
tricksta
Great sense of scale!! Fantastic work
zfigure7
What a grand scenery, nice details and fabulous render!
keeba17
beautiful sci-fi scene. wonderfull lighting.
orbital
Top notch sci-fi, I will keep an eye out for your work in the future!!!!!!!!
Doublecrash
Whoa! Awesome scale and atmosphere, the techno-look is stunning. Thumbs up!
woodhurst
top notch job--love the lighting and all of the models. keep up the excellent work!
4096
Use a cylinder with transparent white material, set the falloff so it's brighter in the middle, and use that to 'fake' the volumetric light effect.
RedSteve
4096, thanks for the comment, but that won't work - I have used this technique in other pictures before. If you look at the ship coming through the port at the top centre, it cuts of the light beam coming through behind it. A cylinder would be continuous beyond items intersecting it.
pixeltek
Lovely image and worth the huge effort of man and machines. Too bad you posted such a small render for all of that.
Drakath
The improvement made the image really good. I like the overall design of this... you exactly hit the right atmosphere.
zapper1977
wow nice, For Byrce thats great looking lighting...