Salt Flats

AP · November 06, 2015, 02:40:19 AM

All function nodes with one Strata and outcrops shader and some Fractal warp shaders to make it appear eroded. A WIP with some plants needed, perhaps more clouds and some slight touch up for final.

Dune · November 06, 2015, 03:27:24 AM

Nice. You have some heavy displacement going on, and I think for a final you need to force all edges (slower). What if you do the salt with a default shader with a little shine, luminosity and translucency, and perhaps a little whiter with patches of dirt.

AP · November 06, 2015, 03:54:49 AM

I intend to Force all edges but this time it did not cross my mind. I could try the Default shader ideas and see how it looks. Adding some whiter spots is possible.

DocCharly65 · November 06, 2015, 04:21:24 AM

Good luck Chris.
I am curious how it developes. I already like the first one.

bobbystahr · November 10, 2015, 10:08:23 AM

looking good..following this image...

Hannes · November 10, 2015, 10:14:54 AM

Me too. Looks promising. I think the displacement is too strong.

AP · November 10, 2015, 11:13:33 PM

Almost ready for round two. I have to render it over night.

AP · November 11, 2015, 04:40:47 PM

Round two did not work out so well. Vegetation placement is an issue. Maybe just limit the amount more? Force all edges did not work either.

Dune · November 12, 2015, 02:27:53 AM

Mmm. Some strange things going on here. The hole is weird, maybe a different seed may have it gone. But why is object placement an issue? Don't you have the ground worked up from PF's? They can be used as masks to place stuff. I do like the tiny salt ridges at the water's edges.

AP · November 12, 2015, 03:43:03 AM

Changing the seed is a good idea. The objects do not seem realistically distributed. I may have to redo that part entirely. No Power fractal shaders for the ground, it's all Functions.

Dune · November 12, 2015, 07:31:30 AM

Well, feed the functions into a color adjust and extract a map out of it.

AP · November 13, 2015, 12:11:08 AM

Sure, that is possible.

DocCharly65 · November 13, 2015, 02:43:38 AM

Mhh... I'm not sure but I think I had a similar issue: In my "planet of the apes-terrain" all populations were placed unvisible under the surface.

When I choose a surface shader instead of the default "Compute Terrain" in anchor, then the populations are ok.
Is this a similar effect?

Single objects work as usual.

AP · November 13, 2015, 03:45:49 AM

No, i don't have that issue. I have it figured out already.