Floating populations (Displacement)

[Volker Harun]

Yes, again, sorry ,-)

It was a long time ago with a lot of ot off topic discussion.
Can anybody give me a quick clue what to do?
The dispalcements were done before 'compute terrain'
I use 'Y for slope' on the distribution shader of the population.

Any idea?

Thanks, Volker

[Matt]

Can you give me a coordinate readout near the cliff? If it's quite some distance from 0,0,0 then there may be alignment problems. There is a bug in Compute Terrain which has been fixed for the next update, and that may be the reason for the misalignment.

[rcallicotte]

This looks pretty good, Volker.  Once you get this fixed, it could rival what I've seen with trees in Vue.

[Volker Harun]

X: 11.727 km / Y: -255.577 m / Z: -8.908 km
Not that fur in my humble opinion, I could walk that ,-)
It is the same terrain as in the 'oneforall-thread'

[moodflow]

This looks like its going to be a very nice image.  I have to agree... its definitely going to rival or even surpass Vue.

[rcallicotte]

@moodflow - I agree: it'll surpass.  Not only in trees and foliage, but the whole scope and practical means within TG2 far surpasses what Vue can do by scope of magnitude.  While Vue 6 looks really good when it's done well, the seemingly unlimited amount of creative work that can be done within TG2 depends solely on us - the artistic end-users.  Gosh.  We have math geniuses coming up with really cool node scenarios, great artists popping out beautiful work, and a general population who just keeps learning more and more.  It's incredible.

[Volker Harun]

Attached is the file - for closer inspection.
You need as objects the XFrog-model Beech in two variations (the preset is just ugly).
The foliage got desaturated and brightness got pushed by approx. 30-40%.

Everything else is in the file.

I deleted the stand-alone distribution shader. Instead I turned the base colours to black, inserted a white coloured surface shader with my preferred distribution for the trees. I tried all setting for the slope key for no prevail(?).
Inserted is a second camera for closeups. I am thinking to link an image through it to mask those stupid trees ,-)

Volker

[Volker Harun]

And - just say thanks to a little group of programmers, testers, and a community with wonderful ideas and lots of help - and call it luck. ,-)

[Volker Harun]

Guess what - for previewing the distribution-square, I set it to -200m and forgot to set it back to 0
The population fits!

[Oshyan]

I'm glad this one got sorted out. This kind of thing happens all too often to me as well. I'm looking forward to the final scene. 

- Oshyan

[Volker Harun]

Well, Oshyan. It is published here, on deviant art, on renderosity and on the webpage of JavaJones (silly guy, eh?)

[Oshyan]

Haha, I know I saw it after I posted my reply. Lots of stuff to catch up on after a long weekend.

- Oshyan