Beach scene test renders, day
Added 2021-10-24 15:00:05 +0000 UTCSome test renders from the new beach scene at various times of day. Very pleased with the result, albeit I feel it could be even more realistic and needs more work. Thinking of turning this into a full landscape with trees and mountains and so on, depends on how well a standard computer can handle that amount of detail.
I'm using the Nishita sky, without it this detail wouldn't be possible especially with a procedurally animated daytime cycle. The clouds are volumetric and using a noise texture, changing its contrast value will realistically switch between a clear sky and overcast day... don't set cloud density too high though as it tanks render times. Otherwise render speeds are very good thanks to this being an open scene so a lot of rays are hitting the sky instead of getting stuck bouncing around... thanks to adaptive sampling night time also takes less to render than day.
