A world Away
Hey guys this is my first proper render with terragen 2 deep edition.
had this in my mind for a while finally put it into terragen wouldnt have turned out half as well if it had been done in the free version
How it was madeTerrainWell the hill was just made out of a basic height field in TG2 it was originally going to look ova the sea but it was going to take far too long to render so I just added a basic fractal terrain instead personally it looks much better than if it was sea.
I then just textured it with basic colour fractals a couple with displacements and one was an image map of a rock. I then added some green colour's to the background terrain to fill in for the trees I originally had a 100000x100000 population of one of my acer trees but it looked real uniform and fake.
PlantsI used two species of trees my ulna Americana and my Douglas fir trees. it was my first time using a distribution shader for a population I think it turned out quiet nice I find when you put trees into populations without a distribution shader they look to uniform and thus ruins the realism of a render.
CastleThe castle was from a great modeler called luca rondolfi he makes some pretty amazing castles and for free as well I just put it through poseray so it would look better in terragen 2.
Atmosphere and lightingThe atmosphere I rather like it was just a quiki I made up nothing special no clouds or anything. The lighting I just added an orangey tinge to it to give it more of a dusk feel.
RenderingThis picture took 15 hours and 47 minutes to render just of 1 core I still don't know how to do multi core rendering and I have 4 cores as well which sucks!
Well the rendering specs were
Atmosphere was set to 64 samples
AA was set to 15
Quality to 1
GI relative and GI sample quality were both set to 3
With GI surface details selected.
PostworkAll postwork was done in photoshop this included the stars which were made with the glitterado plugin from flaming pear, the planet which was a stock image from DA and just some minor lighting and colouring tweaks along with the title and sig.
last notesi decided to do three different versions the first two versions are two images combined to give a better look of the sky the second one has just been run through the aetherize plugin which gives a dreamy quality to a picture
the last is just the original picture postworked in photoshop and then ran through lightroom.
programs usedterragen 2 deep
adobe photoshop cs3 extended
adobe lightroom 1.4
enjoy
