Elephants

[luvsmuzik]

Trying out textures here. WIP  I see I will have to add toenails on the feet.
Left elephant is PF and object default gray run through a merge.
Right elephant is image texture.
Free skin texture if ya want it.
Grass7 tgo....thanks again!

Elephant cgtraders
elephant  onder
https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/animals/mammal/elephant-59f6d447-7685-4692-94bb-8a3333dfe0e7

also here  elephant
https://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=dd4e920d

[bobbystahr]

Nice, is that from the DAZ Basic bunch?

[Dune]

You should reduce the texture size and lighten up the Phants, give them some soft reflectivity, a pf to color vary them, add a vague pf to tusks as well.

[luvsmuzik]

Thanks guys! I added the link for the free obj.^^^^

@Dune Yes, I am experimenting on the textures and lighting. The brownish phant already has a PF with a merge and I am trying different mix methods as the hide is nowhere near smooth on an elephant. I have to figure out on what side of the merge to put the reflective, but I know what you mean by that.

[Dune]

You can even add clumps of dried or wet mud by pf with a little ingenuity.

[luvsmuzik]

You can even add clumps of dried or wet mud by pf with a little ingenuity.

Yep! You should see some of my test by using mix altitude highest and lowest Yes, I am trying every option, because I am used to Blender nodes.

Here is a shady render with yellow sun at 7 Katsura tree (no, I do not know if elephants eat those leaves) To do: scale gray phant texture.

[DocCharly65]

Interesting project.
I like the shadows of the trees on that elephant.

[bobbystahr]

Coming along nicely, I suspect those Pachyderm would benefit from some added GI...

[luvsmuzik]

Thanks all...taking all hints...
Still a WIP

Put the PF from Hannes' scrambled eggs set up (minus reflective and made appropriate color changes) to the elephant on the right.

Sun is only at 4 here so...next time I may try some fancy rays.

[bobbystahr]

more GI and Sun please, durn near black elephants on my monitor

[luvsmuzik]

more GI and Sun please, durn near black elephants on my monitor

hee hee...just when I was trying to fade into the soft shadow effect...

[DannyG]

Agree with Bobby about the lack of GI, may I suggest increasing the exposure a bit (That will help bigtime) The leaves of the trees transparency need a bit of tweaking as well. Good looking scene thou. I look forward to seeing it again if you are still working it

[luvsmuzik]

Thanks bobby and Danny.

Yes, I'm still working on it and a few others
I do see the problem with the leaves too. I will work on that.
Left elephant PF merge with mix low altitude on the muddy look.
Right elephant is still scrambled eggs tgc (colors changed) merge with texture.

[DocCharly65]

Great improvements! Very nice light!

[Dune]

Echo, well done on the phants. Now the ground needs some more work. And the back trees have a very carpet like canopy, IMHO, XFrog might have some free African trees that you can use instead.