River Bed WIP

[Clay]

A new WIP.. still tweaking a few things but right now its time for a beer and take a break from the puter LOL!

[inkydigit]

great start... look forward to seeing where this goes!

J

[bobbystahr]

Totally agree...stick a spherical camera in the middle of the river and render at 2000x1000(or however large you like but that's all that's necessary) and enter it in the VR comp.

[AP]

Not a bad idea.   

[Hannes]

I really like this image. The terrain is great.
There are two things that could be improved a bit imho: First the clouds could use some work to make them look a bit more interesting. And your plants would look even more natural if there was some variety in size and some lean effect. They all seem perfectly upright.
Otherwise a beautiful image. And the idea of creating a spherical render sounds great.

[Clay]

All great ideas! I can tweak a few things for sure but I'm only using the free version for now so I can't do a spherical render which I would much more prefer than doing cubic renders. Maybe when I'm finished tweaking it out one of you guys using the pro version can render it out for me?

[bobbystahr]

All great ideas! I can tweak a few things for sure but I'm only using the free version for now so I can't do a spherical render which I would much more prefer than doing cubic renders. Maybe when I'm finished tweaking it out one of you guys using the pro version can render it out for me?

If I have all the veg no problem but time's short and my machine is slooooow

[yossam]

Clay,


If you need any help with your rendering let me know................I'm thru with my entries. The one I'm rendering now will be finished sometime tonite. I'll be glad to help unless there are rules against it. 

[Clay]

Ok adjusted a few things, clouds, some lighting etc. veggie is a prob cuz I'm limited to only 3 populations on the free version so can't really do a QTVR, but issok, still have a few tweaks to make . And leaning the veggie doesn't seem to work to well? It moves a little but doesn't seem to give much variation like I thought it would..maybe I'm using some wrong settings but I think its straight forward as far as "lean towards terrain under a certain degree angle yadda yadda" So I'll mess around a bit more and see what I come up with.

[Dune]

So, if the question would be; how can I make my veggies lean more with the slopes?... the answer would be: add a compute normal to the end of the line of nodes, just before it goes into the planet, and attach your veggies to that node. Then change the values of the rotation to 1/very low/very low, and you'll see they bend their heads!

[AP]

What about just altering the settings under the Rotation tab within your Population node?

[Dune]

That should be enough on fairly 'large' slopes, but the patch size of the default compute terrain is 20m! If you would make a microworld, even the default compute normal patch of 1m wouldn't cover all angles on tiny rockfaces.

[Clay]

What about just altering the settings under the Rotation tab within your Population node?

Thats what I was doing, it just doesn't make it lean enough, I ran a ton outta the sliders and the pop barley moves. Limitation of the free version? Probably not but never hurts to ask.

[AP]

That should be enough on fairly 'large' slopes, but the patch size of the default compute terrain is 20m! If you would make a microworld, even the default compute normal patch of 1m wouldn't cover all angles on tiny rockfaces.

Alright, so is that how that works. Maybe some improvements are needed in that limitation?

[AP]

What about just altering the settings under the Rotation tab within your Population node?

Thats what I was doing, it just doesn't make it lean enough, I ran a ton outta the sliders and the pop barley moves. Limitation of the free version? Probably not but never hurts to ask.

It should not be but try Dune's ideas and see how that works.