My very first render

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I just got blender three days ago… Am I doing ok?:slight_smile:

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yes you are doing very ok :slight_smile: couple of things bother me: You need to set smooth to those balls and water isn’t SO realistic that it could be. Maybe a little alpha to it and small waves… But really great for a first render!!!

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how about this?

I smoothed out the sphere and ring around the tower, made the sky brighter, and make the texture finer on the mountains in the front. The green orb-thingy doesn’t look so good when it’s really smooth, so I left it the way it was.

I don’t know how to create decent water effects yet, i’ll probably go looking for tutorials later, if I get bored :slight_smile:

EDIT-- How come this picture looks so grainy? it looked fine when I previewed it with blender…

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It’s better now. But those mountains look a bit flat… Have you got any Nor in it?

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Okay… this is my first attempt at making decent looking water, and I didn’t even use a tutorial :slight_smile:

I roughened up the mountains and the sphere on top of the tower, because i thought that the sphere looked plain the way it was before.

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yeah, that last one looks pretty good, especially since youre so new to blender.

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There is no way that you have made that water without tutorial! Now I dare to be suspicious :slight_smile:

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nope, I 100% swear that I didn’t use a tutorial… :stuck_out_tongue:

I subdivided the plane a bunch of times, then roughened it up with fractals, then subsurfed it because it looked too choppy.

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good for a first render better than my 20th. love the water in the final render

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wow! great job with the water!
mind showing me a link to that tutorial?