[Leonardo]

how did they achieve the sun in the first pic of the PDF "what is new 1.7"

It looks much bigger than in my test



leo

edit- it seems that simulens can help a little making it bigger

[bodebodebode]

Hey Leo.

If ouy are talking about the beach sunset, i guess you can achive that by positining you camera far away from you object, and using a 300mm lens.

[KurtS]

I love the new sun!



and it works great with DOF/bokeh effects:

[-Adrian]

Stunning.

[oz42]

Kurt,

I really need an Emoticon with it's jaw on the floor but this will have to do - stunning DOF effect!

[Maximus3D]

Those are beautiful examples Kurt (i'm gonna corrupt the shock smiley soon if you guys continue posting images like this) hehe

I just rendered two subtle tests using the new physical sky, no sun disc visible here but i still kinda like them.
28 minutes rendertime on my quadcore rig, no sss in these tests. 1st landscape image mesh has 1 million polys and the second one has 2 million polys.

Click on the thumbs to view them full



/ Max

[Leonardo]

btw I got a similar sun as the one in the beach... with a 200mm lens and scattering: 06

[def4d]

wow

[KurtS]

sunset tests:

[NicoR44]

That beach is perfect!

Here is one I did using these presets:

##############
## LOCATION ##
##############

// Longitude
-105.555000
// Latitude
28.441000
// Day
201
// Time
12.500000
// GMT
0
// Rotation (rads)
0.000000


##############
## SUN DATA ##
##############

// Use sun (YES/NO)
YES
// Temperature in kelvins. 5777K is the closest value to sun spectral
5777.000000
// Total power refered to the Earth's sun
1.000000

#################
## PLANET DATA ##
#################

// Planet reflectance
0.300000
#####################
## ATMOSPHERE DATA ##
#####################

// Ozone
0.400000
// Water
13.000000
// Angstrom Turbidity
0.020000
// Wavelength Turbidity
1.200000
// Aerosol albedo
0.800000
// Asimmetry
0.999000



Scattering set to 567:


With Apenture map
Diffraction 200
Frequency 150

Frequency 300

And Scattering to 1000

[Brett Morgan]

Totally gob smacked, look greta guys, hey kurt how do you do your ppl? Alpha maps obvously, i have seen white ones cant find the thread though, are these available online? Someone stole my shiny digital camera

Cheers

Brett

[KurtS]

hey kurt how do you do your ppl?

They are just 2d people found here: 3d warehouse

[Bubbaloo]

Great sunset renders! Can't wait to use these settings for Arch-Vis.

[w i l l]

Kurt (or anyone) - how do you go about getting a powerful large looking sun without it reflecting? If I give it no reflectance it appears small and weak.

Any help appreciated. Cheers.

I.e. no reflectance;



with reflectance;

[KurtS]

just try to change the camera Focal Length. Try 200-300mm etc...