I Painted a River...

[bobbystahr]

...then decided not to displace the Painted shader but just apply a Water shader, then made a new Surface layer masked by the inverse River and off set it's displacement by a bunch. Pleased with the result I bashed on till this finally arrived..C&C welcome....
Model of Peter from SketchFab
Peter by photogrammetryworkshop is licensed under CC Attribution

[DocCharly65]

Nice atmosphere there!

Perhaps the shore of the river needs a bit work. There are some quite straight borders.

[Dune]

Yes, I would definitely go for a warped SSS instead of painted river.

[Ethrieltd]

How was the glow/magic done? That's more like what I wanted to achieve here:-

http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,23183.msg235203.html#msg235203

Which is (I think) the same thing, but less detailed.

[bobbystahr]

That's a light  with glow enabled inside the octahedron and a fog level of I think 3....it's on the other computer which is off atm so I can't check.

[bobbystahr]

Yes, I would definitely go for a warped SSS instead of painted river.

Well yes,but my point was to get a fast cheap river that would flow over mild hills semi realistically from a mid distance...kind of a background feature more than a focus...and from that point of reference it works well...I just did a close up with a character cuz I just got Peter and was feeling um, semi snarky to new agers yesterday heh heh heh. The back story and the reflection I didn't manage to get on the river is a gigantic octahedron MotherShip about 1 k up franticly scanning for her baby trapped by the trancer at river's edge.

[fleetwood]

Nice idea. A bit stronger light or another light on his face, maybe?

[luvsmuzik]

Like this one too. Curious if you used coastline smoothing on initial terrain fractal? Trying to work with a built-in feature, I am, I am....

[bobbystahr]

Like this one too. Curious if you used coastline smoothing on initial terrain fractal? Trying to work with a built-in feature, I am, I am....

nope, but in my experience it's a lotta testing then boom, y nail it.