terragen rocks(and grass!)

[inkydigit]

work in progress really, but I quite like this...all settings are my own, an experiment into fake stones/surfacing and object population!...I used several flavours of voronoi with mix scalar nodes to break up the uniform shape of the stones, I then added a power fractal on top of that with an image map.  Grass is from terralights(thanks Klas!!)and some credit must go to Martin Huisman(thanks man!), without whose tutorial I would not have been inspired to explore the potential of the function nodes!! image obtained from freeseamlesstextures.com

as always comments and critiques  gratefully received!

[rcallicotte]

The grass is some of the best I've ever seen.  Your lighting is very good.  I like the rocks a lot.  The one rock in the foreground has too many fractalizations or too many small displacements to look real.  That is being somewhat nitpicky, but I think if it has more of a smoother look it could be closer to a rock.  Or maybe it just needs more tiny displacements to look like dust.

Anyway, this is very good.  Congratulations on your efforts!

[Seth]

the big rock on the left is good !!!

[Harvey Birdman]

Dude, that looks freakin' perfect!!

[monks]

Holy crap! Pristine!
@Calico: I've seen rock like that, come to think of it, it was on an industrial wasteland, but I've seen stuff like this elsewhere - I reckon a rock with metal in it.

...any chance of a tgd...?

monks

[child@play]

this is amazing, i LOVE your rocks!

[Phylloxera]

The grass is perfect, good work on the fake stones, they look like pieces of hardened lava !

[mr-miley]

Outstanding. Realy nice render. If you want a wee bit of constructive criticism (no? well your going to get it anyway   ) try turning up the AA a bit, if you look hard at the grass in the foreground it looks a bit jagged. That said, if I sit 3 ft away from my monitor, it looks totally photographic.... so I'll shut up  

As to the large rock on the left, I don't think it looks unrealistic, just unusual! Makes me think of either volcanic type rock or something that has come out of a blast furnace. In fact, I have just had my boss over to look at it (he's a geologist, I work for a geotechnical site investigation company) and we are both in agreement that it is either volcanic highly vesicular rock, or klinker, from a blast furnace or similar. The klinker fits more with the colouring.

Anyway, most excellent render, have a gold star and go to the top of the class  

Miles

[reck]

oh I love the grass. Was the grass model your own or did you download it somewhere? (if so where!!!)

[Marcos Silveira]

oh I love the grass. Was the grass model your own or did you download it somewhere? (if so where!!!)

Hi, the Grass can be found here:

http://www.terralights.de/terralightsII/Downloads/details/id=17.html

[reck]

Thanks ro-nin. I'll download and take a look.

[choronr]

Agree with Harvey; fantastic realism here. Now, I would like to see this evolve into a beautiful scene!

[Mr_Lamppost]

Very Nice.  I looked at this soon after you posted it but didn't say anything as I was trying to think what the rocks reminded me of; Clinker is exactly it.   

I got that grass by Klas a couple of weeks ago, it does give good results.

[inkydigit]

thanks for all the feedback folks!...very much appreciated!