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Easy Environments: Snowy Peaks (Daz Studio) [Commercial]

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  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908
    edited May 2016

    Hi there!
    It`s been quite a while, not really by choice, life got a bit complicated. I hope everyone is well. :)
    Anyway, I am happy to be back to preview a new Easy Environments set, "Tree of Life", hope you`ll like it!

    It`s for 3Delight, Iray and Poser.
     

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    1080p images:

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  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,286

    Oh, lovely. Will be looking forward to it. 

  • 3Ddreamer3Ddreamer Posts: 1,300

    Oh I am so happy I bought a big Gift Card now.... laugh

  • Serene NightSerene Night Posts: 17,651

    Love this

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232

    <squee>

    Instabuy — looking forward to it.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    Looks fabulous!  Could I beg a favor -- a close up of a figure sitting on one of the big tree roots?

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    Thanks for the kind comments guys, and nice to see half a year later it`s the same familiar faces roaming the forum ;)
     

    @mike ...will do, for the time being here`s a promo with a char close to the roots

    tol

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    Thanks, FM, this was already a must-buy, but the tree roots in partucalr are something I've been looking for for ages.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,728

    I love this :) Definitely going into my cart.

  • ModernWizardModernWizard Posts: 850

    OooooOOOOOOOoooooooh -- a new Easy Environment! I love your stuff -- I'll be watching for this.

     

    --MW

     

    P.S. We won't discuss how that person got up there in the first place. :D

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    Thanks for the added comments guys, glad you like it.

    @Wiz ... not to ruin the fun, but there is a path leading up lol. You can kinda see the "ramp" on the second render of the original post. It`s not the center piece of the set, but it`s there.
    Now, shall we proceed to "how did the water get up there?" ;)  (I have my own theory on that)

    @Mike ... The roots are not super detailed but should work for most purposes. They are a separate object from the tree, so if necessary one could try to add subdivisions.
    Anyway, as ordered here`s two close ups. 1080p, so click to scale. Rendered with Iray, imo the general look on close ups is best with Iray, the bark looks better with 3Delight (displacement vs bump ...).
    Third image added for the object list (the tree can be loaded solo btw.).

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    Fantastic!  Many thanks

  • argel1200argel1200 Posts: 759

    Wow, this looks great!!!!!! Your best yet!!

  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    It looks really great!

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,386

    At last, another Easy Environment! Looking forward to this hitting the store.

  • ModernWizardModernWizard Posts: 850

    Flipmode -- aw phooey -- I was imagining that she teleported. :D

     

    As for how the water got up there, I'm putting my money on Escher-like physics. Or there's some sort of pump in the rock column. ~_^

     

    Do we have an ETA for this?

     

    --MW

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943

    Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    looks very nice

    are the leaves with transmaps ?

    because of rendertime

  • caravellecaravelle Posts: 2,457

    Magnificent! I can see it already in my cart...! ;-)

  • cosmo71cosmo71 Posts: 3,609
    Flipmode said:

    Thanks for the feedback :)

    To be honest, Iray and me are not friends (yet). It crashes my system so much I hardly get to learn it.
    And with dark skies like on this set the HDRI lighting didn`t seem to work well ... I didn`t manage to get the amount of ambience I wanted without ruining the drawn image, so I had to fall back to adding extra lights. That said, with bright skies it`s pretty awesome.

    Setting up the non-HDRI skyboxes from older sets for Iray doesn`t really cut it for me. It works, but tbh. I am not happy with the results I get either.
    Anyway, -not making any promises-, but I think re-rendering some of the old skies for the Iray dome and making a new package of it might make sense.
    I could use the process to make changes to the lighting, like eg. changing a daytime sky into sunset etc., that way it`d be even relevant for 3Delight.
    Feel free to make suggestions, if there is some EE background you always wanted to see under different conditions.
    Well, just an idea, we`ll see if anything comes from it ;)

    He is back on track, welcome back Flip, nice to see you with a fantastic looking new set (maybe inspired by the movie "the fountain"????)

    Well, I do not use Iray, so go on and create 3Delight sets smiley

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    Thanks for the nice new comments! :)

     

    ModernWizard said:

    As for how the water got up there, I'm putting my money on Escher-like physics. Or there's some sort of pump in the rock column. ~_^

    Do we have an ETA for this?

    --MW

    The pump is a funny thought. "Really a lovely place, but damn it`s loud here!"
    ETA ... in a few days I hope, sunday or monday most likely.

     

    cosmo71 said:

    He is back on track, welcome back Flip, nice to see you with a fantastic looking new set (maybe inspired by the movie "the fountain"????)

    Well, I do not use Iray, so go on and create 3Delight sets smiley

    Hey Cosmo :) Yes, The Fountain was certainly the main inspiration, one of my fav movies. I wanted to do this set for ages, but kinda shied away as I knew it would be quite difficult.
    Not gonna ditch 3Delight anytime soon. Since the bit you quoted I got a new system and feel better with Iray now, but both renderers have their own strength & weaknesses, as customer I wouldn`t want to miss either of them.

     

    Ruphuss said:

    looks very nice

    are the leaves with transmaps ?

    because of rendertime

    Short answer yes, the leaves and vegetation use transmaps.
    Long answer ... while one can choose to do simple stuff like grass only with geometry (I wouldn`t opt for that either) doing more complex vegetation would lead to insane amounts of polys.
    Using transmaps one can try to minimize the waste (unused transparency on polys) by balancing it towards the poly count.
    With the tree leaves, I`d say it`s quite a lot of polys so the amount of rays shooting through full transparency is relatively low.
    Still, you are right, this will certainly not render as fast as say the desert set. ;)

    For reference, full scene promos (1200x569) with 3Delight took 2-3 minutes for me. I think around 5 minutes with Poser.
    The 1080p Iray renders from yesterday got 15 minutes for 1600 iterations, but I think half the iterations would have been enough.
    That`s with a GTX 980Ti though, I know that`s not the standard baseline.
     

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    cosmo71 said:

    He is back on track, welcome back Flip, nice to see you with a fantastic looking new set (maybe inspired by the movie "the fountain"????)

    Well, I do not use Iray, so go on and create 3Delight sets smiley

     

    Yes, 3Delight please! I am using Iray from time to time, but ... not the greatest hardware.

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    No worries, I`ll stick to it. ;)

    Here`s previews for a little "standalone" addon for the set, a lower sun version of the sky/environment.
    It includes the skysphere with lighting for 3Delight and Poser, and the Envmap for Iray.

     

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  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212

    Amazing.  I'll be purchasing this one!

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 5,939

    Excellent set. Thanks for the commercial.

    "And out of the ground made YHWH God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads."

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 11,728
    Flipmode said:

    Here`s previews for a little "standalone" addon for the set, a lower sun version of the sky/environment.
    It includes the skysphere with lighting for 3Delight and Poser, and the Envmap for Iray.

    Nice :)

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    Thanks guys!
    Lovely quote maxamillion, although I`ll add I particularly like the Tree of Life theme because it`s spread through many different cultures and religions, it seems to be a globally relateable symbolism
     

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,078

    Ready to buy!

  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    Glad to hear it fastbike ;)

    Just adding some more images >

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  • FlipmodeFlipmode Posts: 908

    Good morning :)

    Just to drop the usual release info, set is live in the store now:

    Link: Tree of Life Daz Store
    Link: First Light Daz Store

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