New World

[Mr_Lamppost]

This started out as a spherical render to test the result of HDR based lighting from a binary star on a Blender project I was working on at the weekend.  Once I'd started adding clouds I got for more interested in the world I was building so just carried on adding. Having now built and populated a whole new world I decided to take out a normal camera and explore.

All the alien plants are mine originally made for use in the VR Challenge.

I may explore further.

[Jokes]

That fog! That sky! It's beautiful.

[DocCharly65]

That's a really impressive alien world!

[ajcgi]

Fantastic. Beautiful sky and lighting. And oddly similar to the planet I'm currently on in No Man's Sky. Only with less giant quadrupeds. And angry dog-like creatures. 

[Hetzen]

There's some interesting ridges towards the horizon silhouetted in that mist. Nice scene. Maybe a little variation in the grass population colour?

[bobbystahr]

A mysterious mood there and lovely hand made veggies....did you make that beautiful tree as well...if so in what program...? Love the over all atmosphere...all elements click together nicely.

[luvsmuzik]

Nice atmosphere and lighting. Like how the tops of the trees are highlighted and shadows are not so dark. Treetops picking up color from sun. Good one!

[Mr_Lamppost]

Thanks for the comments.

There's some interesting ridges towards the horizon silhouetted in that mist. Nice scene. Maybe a little variation in the grass population colour?

I've added a little colour variation to the grass but I think I need to add another population of small plants poking through the grass to break it up a little.

A mysterious mood there and lovely hand made veggies....did you make that beautiful tree as well...if so in what program...? Love the over all atmosphere...all elements click together nicely.

All the plants were made with Xfrog and some minor texturing tweaks in Blender.

Nice atmosphere and lighting. Like how the tops of the trees are highlighted and shadows are not so dark. Treetops picking up color from sun. Good one!

The interesting lighting and the overall colouring comes from having two suns, one large red/orange one and a small white companion.  Here's a quick scene of my stick figure to show the effect.   
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I've done a little work on the rock surfacing and moved the background planet; rendering now.

[bobbystahr]

All the plants were made with Xfrog and some minor texturing tweaks in Blender.

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What species is the tree?...it's lovely.

[Mr_Lamppost]

The trees are something I invented for the original project so as a species as yet have no name.  As I had to call the saved files something they are for now Xeno_Palms which will need to change.  I'll probably wait for T4 final but I will be sharing all this alien veg.

[bobbystahr]

The trees are something I invented for the original project so as a species as yet have no name.  As I had to call the saved files something they are for now Xeno_Palms which will need to change.  I'll probably wait for T4 final but I will be sharing all this alien veg.

coolio, what is there, 10 days left on the BETA?, heh heh

[Mr_Lamppost]

I'll be working on my laptop for the rest of this week and I've not been able to populate on that for ages so no more development of this for a while.  If I stay away from populations TG runs fine and there are other things I can look at. 

Here's an updated version:

[bobbystahr]

I'll be working on my laptop for the rest of this week and I've not been able to populate on that for ages so no more development of this for a while.  If I stay away from populations TG runs fine and there are other things I can look at. 

Here's an updated version:

Be interesting to see what you think needs improving...already looks perfecto to me.

[DannyG]

Lighting has a very unique quality, very very nice work