World Machine 2 Alpine Terrain Help

[Oshyan]

Not sure what you mean by "massive" really. The scale is often more determined by how you surface map something and/or what objects or other visual cues (e.g. atmospheric haze) you put in to imply scale. The terrains Martin and I have posted could easily be used at "massive" scale in TG, making for very large mountains, and would give a great impression of scale with appropriate atmospherics, plant populations, etc.

Now if it's the *shape* that's still a problem, that's another matter.

- Oshyan

[sjefen]

Hi Oshyan,

I'm sorry. "Massive" was a poor description. It's just very hard to explain what
I'm after. All I can say is that I want something that looks more like the last
image I posted.

Anyway.... I think I might be on to something now. I played a little with the
snow function and it gave some interesting results and it looks like it can help
getting me in the right direction. I'll post the results when the build is finished.

Regards,
Terje

[Tangled-Universe]

I'm curious Is it finished already?

[sjefen]

Yep. It's finished, but as a I said.... this still isn't what I'm after, but
I think it is a step in the right direction. I will at least test the snow
function a little more.

There is a problem however. You see that straight, ugly line in the
middle of the terrain? I don't know what that is and it didn't show up
in the low resolution build. Any idea on what that might be?

Regards,
Terje

[Tangled-Universe]

That looks pretty cool!
Where's the .tmd dude?
I could check the line then, but I from my head I think it's the cutoff setting in the snow macro.

[sjefen]

Yeah. It was the cutoff thing 
I can't see any option that may help getting the line smoother.
For now I just made the snow from the bottom to get rid of it.

Regards,
Terje

[Tangled-Universe]

Don't forget the .tmd

[sjefen]

Here it is 

- Terje

[AP]

Thank you for the preset. I certainly never would have thought of using the Snow Node to flatten out parts of the mountain face. Of course i had to tone the size down to 2048 because i ran out of memory and it still took an hour to render.

[sjefen]

No problem 

I just imported the terrain to Terragen and did some tests. I got some
interesting results and I think I'll try to finish this project. It's been a while
since I've played with Terragen anyway

Regards,
Terje

[Oshyan]

That looks quite nice!

- Oshyan

[Njen]

It does look nice. It certainly has the beginnings of what could be a fantastic looking image.

[Tangled-Universe]

Simple, but cool WM2 setup Terje. The use of the layout generator is clever. With some copy/pasting and rotating of the current vectors you can easily extend your terrain a bit further.

The TG2 render looks promising I guess you used a mix of the snow mask and normal surfacing for the snow?

Cheers,
Martin

[sjefen]

I always try to use the layout generator. It makes it a lot easier to control the basic shape of the terrain.

Yep. That is correct. I used two layers of snow. One standard and one masked with the flow map

- Terje

[sjefen]

The TG2 render looks promising I guess you used a mix of the snow mask and normal surfacing for the snow?

Cheers,
Martin

Did you mean the snow mask from the snow node? If so.... no. I didn't. I tried using that, but it looked like crap.

- Terje