I seem to have a problem with my D5, I don’t know if its a hardware limitation or something else, but my current project wants me to render a long range render of a massive area (about 100 acres).
The problem rises when I wanted to use a small asset (such as grass, flowers, etc.), and both in preview / final render they don’t even show up. The thing is, I needed those grasses and flowers to point out our current land’s actual vegetation, so its kinda important. Oh and I used scatter to populate those big areas.
There’s a second problem, well its a bit weird but there’s like almost a line in my screen and that along those line, the shadow just doesnt cast anymore and the grass texture’s kinda weird. This problem I can easily outrule because I can just change the perspective, but if I ever need a wider view, it’ll be a problem.
I’ll attach the raw output render containing the problem :
Is the first problem
What it should like (after its zoomed, its rendered)
The second problem
I know about the cull distance, and I tried to change it way past its limit (to 5000m), and the problem still arises.
In the first image you sent, the small assets/vegetation are visible. They’re not very noticeable due to their size and color, but I believe these are the assets you’re referring to, correct? If you need to render a high-angle perspective image and want to retain minute details, I suggest rendering it at 16k quality.
As for your second issue, Im sorry but I cant seem to notice it on the image that you have sent. Can you please point out the " almost a line in my screen and that along those line, the shadow just doesnt cast anymore and the grass texture’s kinda weird. "
Hello @Clov
Thank you so much for the reply !
I want to clarify my problems, the yellow circle you’re using to highlight those models were right, indeed there’s models there. But those models are just an outline, I’ll show you 2 different renders I took last night.
I rendered in 4k still, but it showed, the only thing I changed was the culling distance, I took it way past 1000m into 9999m.
This morning I want to re-render it and yes, I changed the culling distance again and added some more vegetation, but then it showed me the same problem.
The model’s shadows was definitely there, but I can’t see the actual model being there.
My hypothesis as of now is, because its a huge area and I try to populate it with small vegetation, there’s a limit in D5 render’s vegetation which makes the render looked a bit off. I’ll try to tweak it again and see if thats the case.
I did some testing myself, so the problem was not the cull distance that I changed.
In order for those blue flowers to show up in my render was to turn off the LOD.
I haven’t really tested the cull distance but here’s my work around for the fix :
I tried maxing the output render cull distance to 9999m > model still not showing.
I tried turning off the LOD, and then I revert the output cull distance to 5000m > model showed in the final render.
It might just be a LOD problem and the cull distance might not be a part of it, but currently for this project I’ll still just change it to 5000m as I don’t want to wait more time to test it xd
Also, I’m using D5 Ver 2.11.0 , with i5-12400F x RTX 3070 x 32 GB Ram as my setup if you’re wondering
Alright, thanks for updating us, I may have missed mentioning LOD settings to you, sorry about that.
Basically, that’s the logic behind LOD setting. If you disable the setting, more details will show even with the distance being set too far from the subject, but will significantly increase VRAM Usage and such.
