Norwegian Valley

[sjefen]

My new image. I used the Yosemite terrain from Ashundar but as I was working it started to remind me of my home country
Hope you like it and don't be shy with your comments.

[Harvey Birdman]

Cool - it's nice to see the terrain being used.

[Volker Harun]

It does look like Norway - though it has been 20 years that I have been there.

Very good use of foliage and surfaces. Lovely water. I am not sure about the sky - something is missing, but, as stated, I am not sure.

Volker

[RArcher]

Very nice surfacing. The scene makes me want to see more of the lake.

[Oshyan]

Remarkably realistic textures! Probably the best large granite faces I have seen. What's your secret?

- Oshyan

[Matt]

The rock shaders are possibly the best I've seen for this kind of scene. My only criticisms would be that the clouds are a little too speckly (try reducing the fractal roughness), and the dark parts of the image are too dark (maybe increase gamma, or use less contrast in the renderer?). I'd like to choose this as Image of the Week, especially if you can improve those two aspects

Matt

[sjefen]

Thanks a lot guys.

I will fix the clouds and try to make it a little brighter in the dark areas. But this is a scene where Terragen really likes rendering the trees. Even if they are behind the mountains. So it take some time to render.

Oshyan: It's not really a secret. I used images for both rock and grass surface. The rock surface have a displacement also.

[Oshyan]

What was the displacement of the rock surfaces based on - procedurals or images?

Btw if you save in .exr (high dynamic range) you can probably adjust brightness better in post processing and not have to re-render.

- Oshyan

[sjefen]

I used the same image on the displacement as I did for colour.

Thanks for the tip.

[sjefen]

Harvey Birdman - I just noticed the topic: Ashundar Download Accreditations and wanted to know: Is this your terrain?
I did mean to give the owner credits, but I did not know who this was as it just sad: Ashundar Artists.
If it's your terrain I'm really sorry. But I didn't know.

[nvseal]

That looks amazingly realistic!

[Oshyan]

Is the image you used a publicly available texture? It seems to work remarkably well, particularly with multiple levels of scale, which is surprising. Whatever it is it's well chosen and well applied.

- Oshyan

[sjefen]

Yes it is Oshyan. I downloaded it from www.cgtextures.com
It's under: stone - rock - layered. They don't have names and I can't remember the exact number. I have renamed mine.
But there is a lot to choose from.

[Oshyan]

Cool, thanks for the resource.

- Oshyan

[old_blaggard]

Great image!  I agree with pretty much what everyone has said.  Great clouds shapes but make them less noisy, fantastic use of image maps, and I really love your tree placement.