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Science Fiction art of the month v.8Science Fiction art of the month v.8
This is a selection of the most beautiful and unique science fiction pictures that were submitted within the last month. We've taken our personal favourites from each of deviantart's sci-fic categories.
We are trying to find new, undiscovered artists to help them getting more attention. But of course we cannot ignore the art of the already well known artists.
If you want to see your works in this monthly feature, you just need to create pictures that fit the topic. Please don't be mad if you are not chosen this time.
Please take some time and enjoy these awesome works.
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Wales Features:thumb33490405:Wales Features
Wales is a country in the United Kingdom. Yep! That's right, the United Kingdom isn't just 'London' or 'England', it has other countries too! Us Welshies countinuingly get forgotten. I don't know how many times I've told people where I'm from, and they say 'Oh in England?'...NO! NOT IN ENGLAND! That would be like telling an American they are Canadian ;) So I'd like to make it known that we are our own country! And what a beautiful country it can be when you go to the right places. Here are a handful of the views we get around here...
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| Taken from the official Planetside Forums - For general detail setup, to know what to change when trying to improve image quality, follow these rules: Do a test render with general default quality first. Remember that there are multiple places where detail settings are changed. Also keep in mind that there are lots more detail settings than before and they affect different aspects of the scene. Never assume that you just need to turn everything up or on for best results. Some settings are only necessary for certain scene types and will just slow down other renders. If you see noise in your clouds, increase cloud samples. If you see noise in the atmosphere, either below or above the clouds, or in light rays, increase atmosphere quality. For atmosphere samples I wouldn't go above 64 unless you have lots of rays, in which case you might go as high as 128. Don't go above that though as you get diminishing returns for very much longer render times. Cloud samples could be put as high as 256 in some cases, but 128 should be a normal maximum to give good results. Much lower settings should usually be fine, especially for default cloud settings. The *taller* your clouds (higher "depth"), the more samples will be needed for good quality. For clouds and atmosphere the quality is defined by number of samples and is indicated by the level of noise. If you don't see noise in your clouds or atmosphere but want higher "quality", don't increase samples, just increase Detail in the Renderer. Once you get a good level of noise-free results with clouds and atmosphere at 0.5 detail you can adjust other settings. If your lighting seems to need more detail or accuracy you can try increasing GI detail. I would try 1 level at a time, go from 2 to 3, then 3 to 4 if it's not enough. If you don't see noticeable differences in these changes then your problem probably lies elsewhere! Only enable GI Surface Details if you are doing a render close to the ground or with objects and the shadow detail on the ground or near objects is not high enough. This will cause a major render speed impact and is usually not necessary. If you see jagged edges on areas of high contrast (terrain against the sky for example) or object edges, increase Antialiasing. Note that in the free Technology Preview you can't go above the default of 3. For the Terragen 2 pre-purchase (available soon!) you can use whatever value you want, but I would not go above 8, and generally 3-5 or 6 should be fine. Finally, once you have a pretty good-looking scene and all your other detail levels have been adjusted appropriately, if you still feel that the *overall* scene lacks a bit of detail, then you can consider increasing the main Detail setting. But again I would recommend adjusting other detail first until you have a fairly consistent level of quality across the whole render. Even if it's less *ovearll* quality than you want, the main thing is that it be consistent - noise-free clouds, decent surface detail, good lighting quality, etc. Increase the main Detail setting incrementally - don't just jump to the maximum. Each 0.1 increase will have a big impact on render time as well as quality, but the render time impact is generally greater than the quality impact. 0.5 actually provides pretty good detail for many scenes. 0.7 or 0.8 can be a good detail setting for final renders while still saving time over 1.0. You might even use 0.9 for almost the same detail as 1.0 and less render time. Don't simply assume that you will always be able to see the difference because 1.0 has more detail than 0.9. TG2 renders *sub-pixel* detail, so it is not necessarily the case that you would see the difference between two high quality render settings (0.9 and 1.0 for example). That's it for now. I hope that will help give you a better idea of how to get reasonable render times *and* quality. - Oshyan |
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If you really want, i can remove you from there. But i just mainly want to follow your art and hear more from you. And yes, this is a spam message, sending it to about 10 peeps who have commented me actively and given really nice critic. I don't really know if there is any reasons to ask for a permission for adding in F-List, but i just decided that it's best to let you know !
) and possibly uploading them to the public. And maybe some Terragen 2 skins as well.
