Fern Gully

[AndyWelder]

Ferns & grass are from Klas, dead and living trees are homegrown. And there's also a bunch of those XFrog-galliums that came with TG2. The fake stone shader is dandelO's. And yes, "receive shadows from surfaces" was enabled for the fog. Some sharpening done in Gimp.

[Kadri]

Looks good 

[freelancah]

Very nice!

[Seth]

very nice indeed

[mhaze]

Great image.

[masonspappy]

Nice! 

[badvok]

Really nice image. Good composition.

[Henry Blewer]

I like the 'island' very much. This looks very much like a dried up stream bed. Very nice!

[Oshyan]

Superb image! Great lighting. The lower detail of the geometry on the foreground tree to the left is a bit unfortunate, but otherwise it's near photoreal. Great stuff.

- Oshyan

[Dune]

Geweldige plaat, Andy! Great realism, and mystery. I like it very much.

[Saurav]

Nice render, has the right type of atmo for this scene.

[Jo Kariboo]

Very nice, I like the moods and color.

[AndyWelder]

Thank you, bedankt, all for the positive comments!

The lower detail of the geometry on the foreground tree to the left is a bit unfortunate

Can I translate that as the leafs and bark don't look good enough for a close-up view? If so, yes, I have to agree; still having a hard time getting those object settings right.

[Oshyan]

Hard to see the bark texture with the lighting actually (and that's realistic, so it's a good thing). I was referring more to the simplistic, sharp geometry for the trunk and branches themselves. They don't have enough geometry to have natural variations, they're quite straight and angular. This isn't going to be fixed by a setting in TG, you just need a better tree. Look for one of the higher detail "hero" type trees from Xfrog, NWDA, or Silva3D. Something designed to be used in the foreground. It will likely be quite heavy in geometry, 100,000-300,000 polygons or more.

- Oshyan

[cyphyr]

If you have the one of Terragen + Xfrog mega bundles you can load up the .xfr base file of the tree in question (they're included) and increase the detail levels. I'm no xFrog expert but refining the details on a pre-existing model is pretty easy once you familiarise your self with xFrog's dials.
Great moody image by the way.
Richard

ps: a camera move down between the branches of the fallen tree and down one of the gullies to reveal ... would be great