Arid Red Cliffs - Scene available for download!

[Tangled-Universe]

For this one I used a World Machine 2 terrain as a base.
In TG2 I only added mild redirect shader displacements, 2 strata shaders and fake stones + about a half a dozen of surface layers.

Rendered with detail 0.8, AA8 with Catmull-Rom, GI 3/6/4, 64 atmo samples and of course soft shadows.

For postwork I went for something almost surreal and more artsy.

Cheers,
Martin

[Zairyn Arsyn]

amazing terrain work TU 
absolutely stunning




and did i mention its amazing?

[yossam]

Is there a hole in your terrain at about 4:00 o'clock ? I'm seeing a square blue shape. Hope it's not my eyes..........................................

[Tangled-Universe]

Yes there are some artefacts, but I think I've fixed them by now...new render is on its way (somewhere tomorrow)

[TheBadger]

CRAZY! Never mind the little issues. The render is unbelievably real!

[choronr]

Outstanding terrain and details.

[Walli]

thats really a lot of detail, very well done!

[Tangled-Universe]

Cheers guys

I've rendered a new version with an extra compute terrain somewhere in the network which fixed the artefacts, but will have some effect on the rock-structures.

Now I'm rendering another version with a different type of intersect underlying which also fixes the issues, but will also affect the original look.
I think I'll post both to compare.

I hope I can remember how I did the postwork in Photoshop

Cheers,
Martin

[mhaze]

Excellent render but I find the rock layers too linear, strangely mechanical or constructed.  Looking forward to seeing the updates.

[Tangled-Universe]

Thanks Mick,

I like the linearity, in most places. I agree that in some spots it tends to look off.
I'll see what I can do about it. Have to think about how.

Thanks for your suggestion!

Cheers,
Martin

[inkydigit]

awaiting the update with baited breath!

These look awesome!! 

[zaxxon]

Really nice, detailed work. What size settings are you using to export from World Machine? Looking forward to the next image.

[DannyG]

excellent WM integration. Nice one Martin

[Dune]

Indeed, some spots look very stretched, and there's a spot where the debris lies higher than the base rock (by the looks of it, anyway).

[Tangled-Universe]

I sense a trend lately towards less reading

http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,15911.msg155061.html#msg155061
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,15911.msg155104.html#msg155104


Both renders fixed the issue succesfully, but I can't get the same result with post-processing as the first image.
Hopefully I can post it soon. Need to document those steps in the future :-/

@Zaxxon: if I'm not mistaken this is a 4096px WM terrain, could be 2048 too, but since the erosion maps are 150MB BMP's I think it's a 4096 terrain.
I'll check.

Perhaps this scene is a nice goody to share on my website CGScenery.com?

Cheers,
Martin