Army of Nodes (Depth of Field test)
 

I just thought I could demonstrate how nice a DOF (Depth of Field) effect can make even the simplest objects:

http://hem.passagen.se/chruser99/nodearmy.txt

What are your techniques to make images look good? :)

gratz you learned how to use depth of field :D like refraction... how long was the render time?

Actually, I've known Depth of Field for a while, but I decided to get two industry plug-ins for this. X-Dof and HyperSmooth from http://www.evasion3d.com were both used for the final outcome.

That looks nice, good job... what is Depth of Field?

Generally, a depth of field is a measurement of the range along a camera's line of sight in which objects will be in focus. In short, it's a way to focus a camera at a certain range to make the objects around it appear more blurred to add realism.

ya he explained it... but not my question... what was the render time dude?

Nice, but the front ones need to be sharper/crisper.

notice the top tip of them were crisp n sharp, so i guess that was the focus and the rest were just too close to the camera :D

Yeah I noticed that too, so depth is hard or something?

not that much if you're used to it i guess :)

I will look into it when it is time for me, sounds kinda easy tho... but ill see then

The rendering time was about 12 minutes. And yes, the focus was set to the top of the middle object in the second row, so you're right Randuin.

teehee i'm so smart! :D well it's kinda easy to figure out which points were sharp n crisp which weren't :)

lol good job Randuin, Chruser how is that one project going? The one you showed me a Screeny of?

which one acer? show us all :D

I hope he dosent mind me linking you to the screeny :P, http://www.zelaron.com/lwmodeler.jpg

oh that... i saw that one... it's err... okay i guess the top looks a lot less detailed than the bottom (i saw the rendered one) so i dunno think he'll work on it a bit more... i like the lighting tho... the little lights that shoot into the middle is... wierd =\

well it is very nice to me, since I can barely make a head figure(without detail).

well there are a lot more tutorials now, when i tried to learn LW (before i tried to learn 3dsmax or maya) there was hardly ANY tutorials for LW :)

Yeah, in the Tut list thread they have some good tuts, I mean I have used LW really for about a week and I know how most tools are used from those tuts.