First sign of spring

Dm7 · October 12, 2011, 10:34:02 AM

My first real render with terragen 2, spent quite some time creating shaders and sky mood. However, I can't figure out one thing, at upper left section, the peak seems to be somehow cut off? :/ Super pass doesn't seem to help Once I get this figured out, I'll render it at a much better quality (higher aa etc).
Got a new pc system which can handle it much better.

Sweet system I'd say! Any feedbacks are appreciated!

inkydigit · October 12, 2011, 11:30:10 AM

a good start!
the black area is 'broken displacements' caused by: extreme; too small or too large displacement values.

Dm7 · October 12, 2011, 11:44:07 AM

Thank you inkydigit!

Ah I didn't know, I'll have to explore on that issue.

To anybody else, I won't be able to work on it again for other few hours at least so... other than that displacement issue, any C&C/idea is very welcomed!

Dm7 · October 13, 2011, 08:02:19 AM

Um, here's what happpens when I play around with it. It has evolved to this.. more shaders and tweaks. Entirely different mood, but I think I'm beginning to like this type of style. C&C are welcome.

Kadri · October 13, 2011, 08:19:33 AM

Interesting! The first was interesting too but i like the second one much more.
With just a little less cloud displacement it would maybe look better.
The line in the middle of the mountain looks a little odd to me too.
But you have a image with great potential here already , Dm7

inkydigit · October 13, 2011, 10:04:27 AM

second iteration is very cool...agree with toning down the clouds(a bit)...the line is a fractal artefact...try using a different fractal maybe (perlin for instance?) or a different seed?
cheers
J

Zairyn Arsyn · October 13, 2011, 10:41:00 AM

your second render looks pretty good imo,
nice darkish atmosphere, clouds
good surfacing and displacements

my suggestion would be to render it larger if you can.

Dm7 · October 13, 2011, 11:13:01 AM

Yes I've rendered it at larger size, but then the cloud artefact became more obvious.

You're right, there's some error in it, I have tried to fix it with no success. I even seeded it to see what happen and still am having same error. I think it's due to depth fractal I assigned to the cloud node. And it's perlin too. I thought maybe extreme wrapping was what made it look like that, but playing with it doesn't seem to solve it either. That's when I hate being a n00b. Haha!
At the bright side, hopefully from experimenting with that, I'd know TG2 from inside & outside.

Thank you very much for your feedbacks and suggestions!

Keep 'em coming! Help me be less n00b please. lol