Canyon WIP

[Dune]

You guys inspire me to do everything, so here's a canyon. Not too good yet, but it's a start. This brings to mind that I'd like to try and make a canyon railroad... you know... steep canyon, track hollowed out in one side. I'll try to find some reference.

[Dune]

Maybe something like this.

[TheBadger]

Great start Ulco!

My only thought as you begin is that maybe you should not do a desert canyon. Deserts canyons are cool, but there were a few already.
But something with lots of green I have only seen a few of in the last year.
Not tropical. But something "middle earth" *like* would be sweet! Train or no train.

Just a suggestion thats all.

[choronr]

Love those desert canyons; and, what you have here is an excellent start. My wife and I took a railroad trip in the Verde River Canyon. This is in Cottonwood, Arizona. Here is a link to the railroad: http://verdecanyonrr.com/

[Jo Kariboo]

Perhaps a wip but I very like this image!!!

[Dune]

I'll keep that in mind, Ty. And thanks for the link, Bob. I wish the USA was down the road from here, love to take that train. I found some photo's of that particular track.

Here's a very early layout test, but VERY early.

[TheBadger]

cool

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+1 cool 

[Dune]

The horse is still there, but the terrain is changing fast 

[mhaze]

Looking good, rocks coming along nicely. Look forward to the next installments.

[Dune]

Big, but no good yet.

[Tangled-Universe]

Cool concept Ulco.
You will probably agree with me that the canyon itself still needs some work.
What kind of canyon are you after? Do you use a reference or do you have something specific in your mind?

[Dune]

I'll probably change the scene to more like the reference I included above. With the river and not the huge overhangs. Usually my terrains grow from random settings, I then find a nice POV and refine. But I'm not happy with this either, so I full-heartedly agree, Martin.

[Tangled-Universe]

That's a challenging reference

You can get that slated rock look by using a very tilted strata layer (>60 degrees) and then some fiddling with tilt direction (dependant on your camera rotation). If you then breakup that strata with a PF then you will get slated rock parts here and there as you can see in your reference.
I'm just spitting out thoughts here on what I would try. No guarantees it will work

[Dune]

I'll just give it a go. I aim for something quite photographic, so I shouldn't make too fancy outcrops