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swaneon
02-19-2008, 07:44 PM
Is there anyway to keep the sunlight settings in this picture but have this show up?
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r28/note235/waves2.png

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r28/note235/waves1.png

or should I make the first one stormy?
And how would I do that?

Basically:
How would I make the water in the second picture more realistic?


Thank you very much.
dnashj33
02-20-2008, 08:45 AM
You can position the Dreamscape Sun below the plane perhaps...it's supposed to adjust the atmosphere based on the Sun's position. Haven't tried Dreamscape for a night scene, so I'm not sure how to pull it off with a Moon reflecting on the water. However, you can keep the daylight reflections you have and simply color correct it in a Compositor, as well as masking out the daytime atmosphere/background with the moon image. I would experiment with some 3D fog in Combustion or AE to blur the horizon line appropriately.
http://www.thestreetproductions.com/download/TSPC2008CW05.zip
http://www.thestreetproductions.com/tips.html
For what it's worth, Combustion 2008 has the Color Warper from the Flame, and it makes very quick work of color matching individual channels between two different clips or the whole thing...in this case it would take seconds to match the water with the night background.

I might try to duplicate the Moon background, flip it upside-down, place it over the sea surface layer, set it in "screen" blending mode perhaps, bring the Opacity down to your liking, and the reflections then would be that of the moon and stars (still may need to add a distortion operator to break it up a smidge).
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