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6 Aug 2025
FULLY SIMULATED anamorphic lens flare using octane's photon tracer and my own gottschalk anamorphic lens. Lens coatings are simulated as well so they produce "super saturated" colors. (that being colors outside of the srgb color domain, so the ARRI drt has to compress them)
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6 Aug 2025
Here it is without the glare to prove it's actually simulated. Previous posts include details about the lens itself and how it looks in an actual scene.
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Zircron45 retweeted
4 Jul 2025
Meandering rivers uplift simulated by my terrain tools in houdini
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5 Nov 2024
Simulated atmosphere has been refined to a T! I used a satellite cloud image for the major details and added some procedural touches on top. I had a previous version with pure procedural but it took 10x longer to render.
Alternate angle in replies.
Blender Cycles.
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5 Nov 2024
View from space, you can see the bright red band of light from the sun shining below the horizon.
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30 Aug 2024
Atmosphere shading and cloud sim progress! Most of the clouds are entirely Blender procedural noises and textures. The big hero cloud is a vdb from @samuel_krug. Rendered in Blender Cycles.
Behind the scenes in reply.
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30 Aug 2024
image 1: uncomped render
image 2: different angle to show full atmo simulation
image 3: render of isolated atmosphere from space
image 4: another finished test without the high altitude clouds
0 image textures, 0 satellite maps, all procedural/simulated.
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27 Aug 2024
#RocketLeagueBMWDecalContest taking my shot at this. Sorry for lack of details, I'm on my laggy laptop and every brush stroke takes 5 seconds.
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14 Aug 2024
HUGE UPDATE TO CLOUD SIMULATIONS: Newest #b3d 4.3 build (shoutout @samuel_krug) now has proper volume multi-anisotropy interactions!!! See thread for explanation. #cyclesrender #blend
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14 Aug 2024
Old Blender volumes have an issue with anisotropy. You couldn't have two overlapping volumes with different anisotropies (something that happens very often in the real world) and it severely limited Blender's volumes. The recent daily fixes this issue. (see below for tests)
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14 Aug 2024
Huge thanks to the peeps @Blender for fixing this so quickly after it was reported. As you can see from the tests, the possibilities with blender volumes are even more limitless than before, and far easier to work with. No more cheap hacky fixes.
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28 Jul 2024
Here's in my opinion, the main issue for volumetrics in blender, it can't properly address the anisotropic phase functions if 2 volumes overlap, example:
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13 Jun 2024
Fully procedural volumetric sky and clouds done in #b3d
Rendered in #cyclesrender
Thanks to all the peeps who critiqued this and helped me polish it up.
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13 Jun 2024
The strategy for the cloud bases is pretty sick, I might make a video on this topic since it's really cool.
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13 Jun 2024
Another example of this method, this was an older iteration where I used a different noise type for the cloud shapes.
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17 May 2024
Fully simulated Gottschalk anamorphic lens (the panavision c series lenses) modeled and rendered in #b3d. Background scene originally done by @albinmerle and modified slightly to accentuate bokeh details. (view thread to see rendered lens flare 3D model)
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17 May 2024
Lens flare done in Luxcore. The focusing mechanism is highlighted.
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