Wow, many new wip's to look at since I had time to be here!... And great works! I'll have to look at all of them these days.
Meanwhile I had some "learning sessions". I saw big ben's link to the british-museum-downloads --- and I just HAD TO DO THIS...
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What I had (and further have) to learn:
Creating a map of an existing island.
Creating foam on the water
Creating wet coast line
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And many things more...
Some of the objects are just to have an imagination of dimensions (sorry - - horse is too small)
I want to change the docks asap.
And many things more...
This was in the beginning:
I started with a card of contour lines in corel photo paint
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I manually traced all contour lines, saved them as masks, and filled all with a black color + gamma dependend on the height
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Some smoothing... and here is my first manually selfmade map (only 800x800 -- original is 8333x8333):
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That was app. 2 weeks.
The last 3 weeks I fighted hightmaps, displacement functions... and many more...
Just a check for the plausibility of the coastline (no shaders - only some clouds):
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sometime it was just frustrating, how slow I get forward, but I hope the first results are not too bad
And now let's see what else happend here in the forum in the last weeks