Day 62

Today, I looked at the render that I set up over the weekend. It looked ugly. Anyway, I guess it wasn't the final one either. I started with the dust tweaking and render. For some reason it doesn't seem to render when I tried to render it. Finally, I realised that it is rendering just that it takes so long. I managed to get one frame out without motion blur.



Later on, I tried rendering it again but this time with motion blur, it took 2hours and it still isn't done yet. Hence, I cancelled it.

I then moved on to the terrain. I remembered that Mr Steven mentioned that distant light can't cast depth map shadows. Hence, I switched my light to an area light. Made the scene brighter, by increasing the environment light, and also adding global illumination. Helps a little. However, there were a couple of black artifacts in the render.





Not knowing why, I emailed Mr Steven. Mr Steven provided me a method that I could remove the artifacts and hopefully also the fractured lines.

The result?



The black artifacts looks like they disappeared. However, it left behind some pre-fractured lines.