Men Kalinan - revisited by RedSteve

Bryce • Science Fiction • posted on Apr 22, 2003

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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)

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Euxeb007

6:52AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

Excellentissime SF scene

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Flak

7:17AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

Ooooh, very nice lighting and a very very good image. At 82 hours, I'd say its definitely worth it :) Hot 20.

gerry_g

7:20AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

Ace. don't matter what program you run in, if you want premium volumetric effects you have to set very high values ;-)

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RedSteve

7:33AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

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!

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antje

8:00AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

I love it!! Excellent space scene!!!

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ITAK

8:12AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

I very like spacing around and of course lighting excellent!

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RobertJ

8:52AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

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.

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gsb

9:00AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

This one is more than excellent! Congratulations!

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Kate

9:02AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

This is huge! what a great POV and mood....excellent

sweetlizard

9:41AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

just so great, incredible...

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Rochr

12:31PM | Tue, 22 April 2003

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

1:11PM | Tue, 22 April 2003

Very good image RS. Wonderful composition and the lighting is very well done. Well done. ---- Scott.

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tricksta

5:15PM | Tue, 22 April 2003

Great sense of scale!! Fantastic work

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zfigure7

6:43PM | Tue, 22 April 2003

What a grand scenery, nice details and fabulous render!

keeba17

12:55AM | Wed, 23 April 2003

beautiful sci-fi scene. wonderfull lighting.

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orbital

1:49AM | Wed, 23 April 2003

Top notch sci-fi, I will keep an eye out for your work in the future!!!!!!!!

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Doublecrash

7:08AM | Fri, 25 April 2003

Whoa! Awesome scale and atmosphere, the techno-look is stunning. Thumbs up!

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woodhurst

6:17PM | Mon, 28 April 2003

top notch job--love the lighting and all of the models. keep up the excellent work!

4096

12:33AM | Mon, 12 July 2004

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.

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RedSteve

8:54AM | Mon, 12 July 2004

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.

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