This week I experimented with different values for the heightfield erosion node. For better visualization I wanted to compare different erosion settings in combination, which was not possible with the animated GIFs in the Wiki (and I do not like GIFs because I want to choose by myself when to switch to the next image).
I wrote a script to generate the tgd with animation keys for most of the settings in combination (the first 6 settings) and had to limit every slider to 3 different values (6 sliders with 3 steps each = 729 images, 6 sliders with 5 steps each = 15625 images = impossible).
After 24 hours of rendering on two systems I realized the slider positions were badly chosen
, but I want to present it anyway.
The result is a small website and a bit of javascript with a lot of rendered images. You can change the settings with the range sliders.
Maybe you could help me select the best 3 values and I will render it again? Or is it better to use 10-20 fine steps for each slider and reset the rest of the sliders to their default values while animating this one setting? The image count will not multiply then (10 values for flow distance + 10 values for duration + ... (10+10+10+10+10+10=60) instead of 3 values for flow distance * 3 values for duration * ... (3*3*3*3*3*3=729)) and it is easier to render and upload the images.
http://tg3-demos.bringewatt.de/erodev3.phpThis demo contains 729 images with a total size of ~70MB, which are loaded dynamically while sliding the sliders. Tested with Firefox 33, Internet Explorer 11 and Chrome 39 - the script may not work with different browsers.
