Jungle waterfall

Henry Blewer · October 13, 2010, 01:30:00 PM

I have been following this also. Thanks!

miha2 · October 13, 2010, 03:57:40 PM

njeneb, it's nice to hear I'm not alone, and others are also interested in creating beautiful pictures. Updates to come, I hope in about a week, with grass and trees...

Henry Blewer · October 13, 2010, 05:29:40 PM

Don't get discouraged. Terragen 2 is fun. When things get too hard, use the parts of the program you are good with. An image you produce which you like is always encouraging. I am attempting to get good with image maps now. Using multiple maps is proving a challenge so far.

jbest · October 14, 2010, 02:06:40 AM

Quote from: njeneb on October 13, 2010, 05:29:40 PM
Don't get discouraged. Terragen 2 is fun. When things get too hard, use the parts of the program you are good with. An image you produce which you like is always encouraging. I am attempting to get good with image maps now. Using multiple maps is proving a challenge so far.

I seem to have a hard time with image map shaders, I don't usually use them

Thankfully I live without them

reck · October 14, 2010, 05:43:15 AM

Keep at it miha2, i'm sure you'll get there. You're really lucky to have someone like Dune helping you through this, he's one of our pro's

Henry Blewer · October 14, 2010, 06:30:19 AM

Ulco's been giving me good advise in this thread. I sort of hijacked it. It's about image maps. But I am not going to ask for any more in his thread.

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=10953.msg112401#msg112401

miha2 · October 14, 2010, 12:35:57 PM

Oh, yeah... With Dune, but not with him alone, I'll get there, I'm sure.

miha2 · November 04, 2010, 09:08:59 PM

OK, after almost 3 weeks, sorry, I was busy..., now look at this: this is my almost final, let's call it like this. I planted some trees here, so it' s looking like this now. Anything I should remove/change?
Dune, you'll never recognize your old job. I'm really thankful to you for your job, but I rebuilt it. So, here it is, look at it, and let me know your comments.
P.S. At first, I wanted to create a jungle waterfall, but after the job I (and by I I mean my changes, not the whole project) 've done, I decided to plant some firs. The example is as follows.
P.P.S. The trees are too dark. How do I do them greener?

Dune · November 05, 2010, 04:48:28 AM

You should post a rendered image for us to see and comment.

miha2 · November 06, 2010, 01:48:21 PM

OK, here it is.

Dune · November 07, 2010, 03:52:27 AM

From what I read in your tgd you have no image/texture applied to your tree. Open it up (rightclick) and search for the EU22.lef/brn/brk files and such in color and opacity tabs.

miha2 · November 07, 2010, 02:24:49 PM

Hello Dune. Where (and what) exactly should I be looking? Is it MTL or obj? Or in Terragen?

Dune · November 08, 2010, 02:33:09 AM

Open a new Terragen, import the tree object (not a population), rightclick on the object node, and click 'internal', you'll see a parts shader, rightclick again, open 'internal' and you'll see a few default shaders. Dubbelclick on it and you'll open the settings. There, in the color tab, you have to find the objects 'lef' file. Also in the opacity tab, you find the same file, and check 'use alpha'. Same for bark and other things in the other default shaders.
Then render and see if it's ok.
Then go back up to the main level, rightclick on the object node and save as tgo. You should use that as the object for your populations.