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Published: 2009-11-04 23:06:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1074; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 65
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Flexing my muscles in the atmosphere editor last night and came up with this. The focus is clearly the sky and sun so please give me a little mercy on the quality of the palms... Vue doesn't really have much in the way of HD palms... no wait, it has *nothing* in in that way. Oh well!Enjoy
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I love the sky.. its excellent. 
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haha, neither! the sky was the part of the image i focused on the most out of everything. there were 3 main parts, sky, background terrains, and the palms... The palms i couldn't really do much about because they're low quality Vue one's!
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This is a really good image. The palms are fine, the fact that they are not 'high-res' gives this more feeling of depth. Nice work!
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PS: you can make your own HD palm (or any plant) - load a single instance of the palm tree, edit the object, add a few detail levels to get a desired poly count (and I'd go edit the textures and enable bicubic interpolation for all the bitmaps too as usually Vue plants have interpolation off completely) and save...
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hey man, I just gave that a go... bumping the thing up to 60,000 instead of 6,000 and changed the leaf materials to "bicubic" and I saw no improvement... I was trying to and I might have been able to fool my eyes that there was an improvement but I really don't think there was. I did a side by side comparison of a replicated palm.
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if you look at the structure of palms they are really quite simple and the leaves of Vue tree's are just planar (aka, 2 poly's).
Considering this I looked into the resolution of the leaf materials and the colour+alpha maps are bugger all in pixels... and seeing as that is where the quality decreases most notably I think getting higher res. textures for there would make the biggest difference. Also, bi-cubic interpolation would be great, but if you only have 400 pixels to do it on, it's not going to be able to do much. (as apposed to 2000 pixels)
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True. Most Vue leaves seem very low res.
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OOOOOO ima try that right now!
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The definition of the sun disk (instead of generic glare) is very effective and the multi-layered clouds and colouring there-in are excellent. Really beautifully done.
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Cheers 
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The top layer looks redder and as such adds a lot to the realism and picturesqueness (?!) of the picture. (Doing anything with Vue and clouds involves at least some luck, just never admit it!
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The palm tree's don't look too bad actually, normally when they're this close you can see the low-res of their leaf textures
The last winner of the environment competition entry was pretty similar to this is terms of lighting and tropical scenery, I actually like yours more, if you made this at the time it could have had a chance (the atmosphere colour and lighting is beautiful)
Yeah, Vue has made great strides in broadleaf tree's, the Conifers are generally still good een as "old models" but some new HD palms with individual "leaf blades" (like the OnyxGarden ones) would be great!
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yeah completely agreed with the wanting of new broad-leaf palms! I heard that creating these tree's is just stupendously difficult! Hence why they don't release tools to create tree's cause it's just too hard for us to do.
Thanks for the compliments on comparing it to the environment winner! Personally I think that image is much better as it has the photo realism but had I done this for the competition I would have kept the atmosphere/lighting and done something far more amazing with the composition, thus giving it a chance
Though I do hate that that image won... I saw some of the others, like yours which went down the opposite track of creating very different scene's to the typical "realistic tropical photo" and I think that the guy probably did it in 2 hours.
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*sigh* yeah - I have nothing against the artist, but that's one loss that dosn't stop hurting, so many of the other finalists were much more creative uses of Vue I think
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