Winding river

Started by Dune, October 07, 2014, 02:27:56 AM

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Dune

Toying about with warped SSS's.

Kadri

#1
Looks nice Ulco.
I like the way the strata looks too.
And what is that thing on the right side near the river by the way?
Deliberate?

choronr

From left to right; top to bottom, details are abound. And, the colors are striking. Very good Ulco.

Oshyan

Good lord, those strata layers are phenomenal. The whole thing looks rather under-antialiased (or over-sharpened), but it's an amazing-looking scene. I'd love to see a higher quality render.

- Oshyan

mhaze

Excellent rocks and that strata...Wow!.  Sadly though the rocks on the valley bet look like spots they seem too uniform in size and distribution.

Tangled-Universe

That looks quite nice Ulco :)

I suppose that for detaling the strata you use one of the methods from the "rectangular noise" thread?
It looks like I can recognise some of the squarish shapes there.

I think it's a nice extra touch to the strata, but the effect is a bit too strong to my taste?

If you're interested I can show you some of my own results for getting rectangular'ish noise.
It's also based on conditional scalars, but I use more "octaves" for base noise, then a simple single fractal warp at proper scale, then stretch twice separately (for X and Z) and recombine using merge difference. Something like that from the top of my head.
What you then have is a basic "simple" noise with not too much detail and complexity and it's in colour so you can use a displacement shader to use this noise for displacement (obvious to you, but I describe this for others)

With this basic noise you can add additional transform input nodes to resize the noise to create additional "octaves".
I did this up to 5-6 layers.

Key things are:
1) The diffrent scales for voronoi in the base noise functions, they should be different, but not too much.
2) Do not displace too much
3) Determine ideal displacement for main noise function, then if you resize noise with transform input then rescale the displacement accordingly.

I may add my precise methods and source files later this year, as they are now part of a freelance job I'm working on.

Cheers,
Martin

ndeewolfwood

#6
Excellent setup...don't stop here with this one. Some tweak and it could be perfect.

Dune

Here's the same, but unsharpened. I admit I threw the basic Irfanview sharpening over it, not very thoughtful.
@Kadri: the thing is a loose huge boulder, broken off the hard ground layers, but I also admit it looks like 'something'.
@Martin: I'd like to see what you came up with, but this is not really rectangular noise from the thread, though I admit (again) I've been playing with that as well. This is just a hard layer made by a stretched hard PF, which is displaced a bit + displacement by a smallscale strata shader + a 'sort of rectangular noise' by combining one PF voronoi with its rotated self.

The valley was made with a soft warped simple shape, displaced up 3 times into soft strata by using 3 color adjust shaders, each warped for additional bending, etc. The river itself is taken from the valley, through a color adjust to make him riverwide, and warped extra again for the winding.

Tangled-Universe

Thanks for sharing this method Ulco, very interesting way to create your terrain and strata :)
I forgot to say I like your lighting quite much. Shadows are nicely detailed, yet dark "enough".
It's very subjective matter, but I like it (here).

I'll post something in the rectangular noise thread as it's more appropriate to do it there.

Kadri

Thanks for the explanation Ulco.
Nice technique to make the landscape.

DannyG

Yep... topshelf work Ulco.
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TheBadger

Very interesting Ulco.  :) Really like the little river too.
It has been eaten.

zaxxon

That's a winding river I'd like to walk along. Hopefully you'll treat this one as more than an experiment, definitely floats my boat!  Nice vegetation and lighting, this really deserves some further work. Very nice!

inkydigit

Beautiful terrain work and lovely lighting too! 8)

folder

Great work Ulco

But your explanation was over my head and I admit it how do you displace a SSS by using the color adjust shader and are you warping by using the warp shader. Sorry if this is a basic question

David