The medieval watchtower - fantasy style

[Peter_Cerny (Peter Černý)]

@Hadriscus

Great, very atmospheric ! Bit of a technical question, I see your trees use alpha cards… just how high is your transparent depth set to ?

Hi, thank you. I use the Trees from a Botaniq addon.

I don’t know specifically what you mean. Do you mean to avoid alpha overdraw?

[Peter_Cerny (Peter Černý)]

@NyctoCorax

So I don’t know blender yet but I do know this! Flaming arrows are nowehere near as effective as generally portrayed, and solid wooden structures are very difficult to set on fire in that manner - where they’d be good would be for firing into a thatch roof. Once THAT catches fire, the whole building is probably doomed.

Great

[Peter_Cerny (Peter Černý)]

@sundialsvc4

The thing that I absolutely admire about this render is that both “the foggy environment” and “the wooden tower” are absolutely realistic and appropriate. There is nothing in any of these images to “draw my eye” to the fact that it is all actually CG. (This observation applies both to the tower and to the surrounding environment – and nothing implies that one was “superimposed against” the other.)

Wow, thank you I’m glad, my effort was to create the result as you describe it above. Thank you

[Peter_Cerny (Peter Černý)]

@DinoReplicas

Great design
Also you got the gloomy atmosphere perfect, reminds me of my corner of the world

Hi, thank you

It was a terribly hot summer outside, so my aim was to create something that would evoke a sufficiently humid and cool environment in the mountains and in a medieval style.

[Hadriscus]

Alright. I meant the transparent max bounces in render settings. It needs to be high to traverse several alpha cards such as the leaves on your trees, otherwise the ray ends prematurely and simply returns black. Usually in scenes with dense foliage you tend to set that depth quite high to account for the amount of leaves. That’s why I was wondering what the value was, and the impact on rendertime.

[Peter_Cerny (Peter Černý)]

Thank you for the clarification and I am attaching the settings for this particular scene. I rendered a fast animation at about 57 sec/frame with optix denoise enabled.

I didn’t render the scene by default though, so I don’t have a time difference but there should be some time savings in this setting.

The values here are slightly adjusted against the preset values. However, I didn’t see a problem with the blackening in the leaf area.

I guess I explained everything you asked about.

[Xavier_Sibanda (Xavier Matongo)]

Nice, add a touch of post-processing, i,e compositing effects

[Peter_Cerny (Peter Černý)]

Hi,

I made some adjustments and corrections to the image directly in blender using compositing nodes, and I made further colour adjustments to the shadows and details afterwards using Darktable. Same for the images so for the animation first rendered to separate images and then mass edited.

But I didn’t want to over-edit it too much.