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Foothills Morning
Experiment with terrain-in-terrain and each doubly stacked. The terrains are from the High Resolution Terrains 2 set, the materials used from the same set and the High Resolution Terrain 1 set, the sky from the HDRI Enhanced Skies set (everything available at Daz 3D). The sun is in the east, early morning well before mid morning.
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I'm on an old i7 2.6 MHz computer running Win7. This scene was rendered Premium with Soft Shadows, 9 rays per pixel, max Ray depth 4 and IBL Quality 32. It took 1-1/4 hours. The problem is less the stacked terrains but the materials applied on them can make a render quite long. Depending on the scene, there are several strategies to make it render faster - or longer.
My ol' 2.4 GHz Macbook gets very sluggish with stacked terrains (depending on their materials) - what sort of machine are you using, Horo?
Thank you. The clouds are a Bryce sky, rendered as the 6 faces of a cube several times with different light settings but without visible sun. Combined and transformed to spherical panoramas and then merged to an HDRI. This HDRI is blended to 50% with the same sky but offset by 40 degrees. With quality 32, saturation 100 and HDRI Effect 75 it gives the ambient light with a cool colour. Saved file size is 51 MB, loading needs 210 MB if memory and once loaded 142 MB.
* In this version, the clouds look more natural. How much does the scene file weigh?