Wastelands...

[moodflow]

Was playing around with mixing fake stones and ended up with this.  Comments, complaints, compliments, critiques, threats, are all welcome...   

[moodflow]

This one took about 7 hours to render.  Minor color corrections in Photoshop.  I got tired of the "stock" atmosphere, and started playing with the settings.  I wanted more of a spacey feel on this one.  I forgot to "up" the displacement on the moon surface, which would have added more realism, but I didn't want to wait another 7 hours.

More renders to come...   

Did I mention I love clip files?  You get something right, then all you have to do is save as clip file, then archive it.  Much love here.

[old_blaggard]

Cool colors and displacements!  I love the crispness of this render.

[dhavalmistry]

oh man....this is great....mind sharing the secret???....

[Oshyan]

You've got really cool results here. I presume these are mapped with an image-based texture - is that correct?

- Oshyan

[moodflow]

oh man....this is great....mind sharing the secret???....

No problem - for the overall terrain, I ran a power fractal shader with a small scale (like 500).  Then I took a world machine mountain .ter I had made, and shrank it down, then put it through a "twist and sheer".

After that, I set up 2 fake stone shaders, ran those through a merge shader (so they affect each other), then plugged all of that into the child layer of a surface layer.  I cheated on the textures, and loaded a sweet tiled photo of a rock surface I took a while back.  Same with the sand (which you really can't make out due to distance).

The atmosphere was done by lowering it some, and tweaking the settings until I got that darker sky I wanted.

The post processing involved some slight color balancing.  The image didn't need any sharpening, as the rocks were already sharp enough to rip my spacesuit open!

[moodflow]

You've got really cool results here. I presume these are mapped with an image-based texture - is that correct?

- Oshyan

Yes, this was more of a test image.  I was lazy, and didn't feel like tweaking with fractals and colors, though I am sure I could bring it together as nicely via some power fractal shader stacks.

[moodflow]

Ohh, and I imported the high res version of my "softshadow workaround" clip file, which made a HUGE difference in quality.  You can probably see it in the shadows on the sand.  It also seems to bring out more GI effects in the shadows.

[dhavalmistry]

thanx...much appreciated

[Will]

very nice I like the displacement and the moon good job.

[rcallicotte]

I like the colors and the setup.  Nice terrain shapes.