Hey Rob,

It is, or was in Paris today. I hope it may be here either tomorrow or the day after. I cant wait.

I will gladly post up some stuff as soon as I get some results that are worth it. I will look at your stuff as inspiration.....;)

Looks like it will be a great app for providing a setting for some of my Maya stuff. So much to learn....

cheers for straightening that out for me,
see ya,
mic

I said id Post a Higher Res Pic

Here It Is

Oasis Pic

Very good looking! How long did the render take?

5 1/2 hours, so not too bad.

Im setting up a website now and ill upload all my high quality pics as all my images that ive posted are heavily compressed.

Anyone have any Landscape or Scene ideas that i can try and create?

Cheers.

Heres an animation im working on, sorry bout the poor quality (320x240 haha) but i needed a preview quick.

Cheers

islandsnow.avi

Looks like the next Ice Age movie coming along lol.

haha, well itll be a good one. ;)

im just doing a still render of it now with different lighting..

GI lighting takes atleast 15hrs lol hate to think what radiosity would be like...

i think Gi takes so long cause im not sure u should use it on a outside scene as the photons emitted just fly off into space or something which means they take forever to calculate. thats why u have huge render times.

Yeah the lighting looks great with GI but ive switched to global ambience, so ill post a pic as soon as that renders

:headbang:

1hr 58min till renders done

coming along nicely man, really interesting setting, I do think there is a lot of stuff going on and i'm not sure you need all of it... the moon seems to stand out and take away from your work.

Remember your light source. It appears the sun is in the upper left hand corner of the image, beyond somewhere. But the moon has its shadow on the other side......

Yeah i havent had time to update, with renders taking so long.

I think im gonna put the oasis scene on hold for a bit and work on some other things.

Cheers

Very nice renders!! I would like a tut on this scene you posted, if you don't mind. Mine would look alot different of course.

http://forum.simplymaya.com/attachme...&postid=188012

Id love to but that was only an example of a landscape i made in vue, i import my maya models into vue to create my scenes, i find it hard to create a scene in maya as i can create landscapes in vue 1000 times better than maya.

On the other hand if you have vue i can walk you through it.
I can definatly say it brings your maya creations to life.

Cheers.

The scene complexity that can be acheived in Vue is stunning -- not to say that Maya couldn't do it...;)

Is Vue easy to learn compared to Maya, because I'm very intrigued with what I've seen so far and might even consider getting into it myself?

Your right maya could do it but i dont think ill live that long :p
(im 20)

Vue is awesome its worth every dollar. Brings your Maya creations to life.

And yes its easy to learn due to the kickstart tutorials that came with it were all i needed to get going. After those i was making scenes like above. Well maybe after a bit of practice.

Cheers.