Rock Garden

Started by badvok, April 20, 2012, 06:03:57 PM

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badvok

Hi,

I'm new to Terragen and I've been going through the tutorials, reading what I can and generally playing around. I recently went through Neuspadrin's Intro to the Fake Stones Shader, which has taught me loads about how to chain various shaders and functions together.

While nowhere near as good as most of the renders posted on this forum, it's the first thing I've really been pleased with so I thought I would share it and introduce myself at the same time :)
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MGebhart

Dang nice render for your first post. Well done.
Marc Gebhart


masonspappy

Well, if that's how good you can do on your first post then I really want to keep an eye on your stuff, as I imagine it will be quite good! :)

Dune

Welcome, and yes, nice first render. But beware of the spikes in the right hand rock. If you're into rocks, check out the forum for tgd's, there's plenty of interesting stuff around to learn from.

Henry Blewer

Very nice first post. The rock face can be smoothed by a surface layer. The right tab control this in the surface layers settings window. Check the box and try 0.2
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ares2101

Don't sell yourself short, that is very nice.

badvok

Thanks everyone :) I agree that the rocks on the right and the foreground don't look right. I've spent most of this weekend trying to fiddle around with them, but I just can't get them looking right.

I think I've now got myself in a state where I have too many shaders lying around and I'm confused about what they're all doing! So I'm going to strip the whole scene back and start on the rocks again, I think.

Still, I've now learned the importance of the "Save Incremental" option. Would have saved a lot of time if I'd learned that lesson earlier...:P

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Dune

It is always good to try out parts of a terrain (such as rocks) separately and look at them closely. If they turn out nice, you can save all nodes as a (appropriately named) clip file (.tgc) for later insertion in a terrain.

badvok

Thanks for the tips. Especially about saving clip files; I didn't know that was possible. So I've been playing around with the rocks in a neutral scene and then reimported them back. They could still do with some work, but I think they're a lot better than they were.

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Henry Blewer

These rocks are much better. If you would like more stratified rocks, decrease the noise. You can also stretch the noise along the x and z axis.
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choronr

You've got a good thing going here. You might consider experimenting with changing the sun's position to effect a better atmospheric look. It appears the sun is on your back. Try moving the sun to the upper right corner of the scene. This might give you an improved image.

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badvok

Thanks :) I'm definitely going to have a go at the rocks again and play around with the lighting. Just as soon as work lets me :(

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badvok

I think I'm mostly happy with the rocks now. I've kept the light bright, as the general idea for this scene was bright light and flowers :)

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Badvok