Crater lake Final Page 2

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 04:57:58 AM

Hi guys,

a new one from me, albeit a quick one. Actually I wanted to make these clouds in the first place, and then needed a terrain for it not to look too boring.
If you forgive me the only half-finished shore on the right, I hope the rest of the render is pleasant to watch.

Cheers,
Frank

Kevin F · November 17, 2011, 05:01:18 AM

Good start but what about those shear mountain sides on right hand side - too much displacement/cutoff?

Tangled-Universe · November 17, 2011, 05:02:27 AM

Wow, this looks really appealing already! Really love the sky.
Like you said yourself the shore is a bit unfinished and the mountains could use some work too.

Cheers,
Martin

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 06:04:45 AM

Oh yes, the cut-off mountain top in the background...
It's just an alpine fractal anomaly, but here is the story: you notice that the file name is "new 16", so it's the 16th iteration of the image. I saw this cut-off piece early on, an quickly moved to a different POV where it wasn't visible anymore. 10 or so iterations later I forgot about the cut-off part and move the POV near the previous location .... and here are we again

Other than that I like the mountains as they are. Just the tree distribution isn't quite right yet. $:-\$

Tangled-Universe · November 17, 2011, 06:25:44 AM

Oh yeah those mountains, didn't see it actually...too much drooling on that blistering cold looking atmosphere

I think you can easily fix that by positioning a spherical distance shader at that position and to use that for blending in a different alpine fractal seed.

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 06:32:16 AM

Quote from: Tangled-Universe on November 17, 2011, 06:25:44 AM
Oh yeah those mountains, didn't see it actually...too much drooling on that blistering cold looking atmosphere
I think you can easily fix that by positioning a spherical distance shader at that position and to use that for blending in a different alpine fractal seed.

Also a good idea, but I fixed it by changing the Alpine itself. I wanted the mountains to be wider, so I increased the feature size and decreased the scale step a bit to add some steepness, and I'm rendering another version soon. No work on the shores yet, though.

inkydigit · November 17, 2011, 07:52:39 AM

wickedly good start on the clouds!

mhaze · November 17, 2011, 08:31:35 AM

Great pic, clouds are amazing.

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 08:37:48 AM

I'll do one more iteration and then I'll hand it over to TU to make the terrain look even prettier

... I tend to loose interest once I've got the sky right anyway

Tangled-Universe · November 17, 2011, 08:58:01 AM

Ghehe, yeah sky/clouds is really your thing!

looking forward to it

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 11:08:00 AM

naaaah, the second iteration wasn't ideal. I need a little more time, but getting there.

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 03:30:12 PM

Here is the second, but not the last iteration:

Seth · November 17, 2011, 04:23:04 PM

the light and colour are really good on the first one !

FrankB · November 17, 2011, 04:50:37 PM

you're all in for a surprise as soon as you see what TU has done to the mountains!!! Just saw a preview and it's awesome!

Kadri · November 17, 2011, 10:06:49 PM

Looks good Frank

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