Monastery

[Dune]

Another thing I'm building. First concept, with faults. Crops are at max size.

[TheBadger]

  I really like that area around the water on the right side!!!

[archonforest]

Indeed! That area is very nice...I mean the rest look cool too

[fleetwood]

Makes me want to go down there and explore.

[Kadri]

Ulco at multitasking Nice.

[Dune]

Small update. Forgot to change the max height for dark waterline on boats, well... now let's see what they think of this (and continue with the museum wall).

[DocCharly65]

I love the first one. Great!

Could it be that in the second one the grass with the cows could be a bit finer - or alternatively deeper and the cows standing deeper in it? I guess it's surface shader and no population, right?

[Dune]

Yeah, it's surface, with its limitations. Rendered at detail 0.6 the 'fake grass' (stretched small fake stones), don't really displace up high enough. I did consider a grass pop allover, but try to avoid it. Good idea, though, about the sinking of the cows.
I definitely need ideas, also to make this more photoreal.

[DocCharly65]

I like your way to use surfaces instead of obj-populations.

When I am more experienced I want to swich over to that technics too. I am aware it decreases memory and cpu requirements of the PC .

[mhaze]

Super stuff as ever - some veg along the wall of the building, where the the walls meet the ground would be good.  Maybe some ivy?

[Dune]

Yeah, thanks Mick.

[Antoine]

It looks so realistic !
I was wondering about the tree leaves in the shadow area (image 11b and 14), it almost looks like as if there was some kind of radiosity; What setting or technique are you using so that it doesn't looks too flat ? are you increasing GISD ?

David

[Dune]

No increase in GISD. Just a little (0.2-0.5) translucency in the leaves (not too much, or the leaves would be too light in the shadows), and color variation (by the old method with the transform shader). That's all.

[Antoine]

Thank you for your explanation!

[Dune]

I thought I had a post about this one, and I found it again. Update. The monastery still needs to be built, the last one apparently wasn't like the client envisioned.