Spooky blue boxes +clip

[Mahnmut]

I started messing around with the little blue boxes,
and that is the first interesting landscape I produced thus.
It´s quite simple still, but I like it.



Best regards,
Jan

[old_blaggard]

Heheh, nice effect .

[PG]

Do you think this is what the lyric sheet looked like to Jimi Hendrix?

[Oshyan]

That's actually really, really cool. Would love to see it in color and/or without evident "self illumination", and being lit and shadowed by a regular light source.

- Oshyan

[PG]

Could you do a little walkthrough of how you got this?

[Mahnmut]

Thanks!
@ PG:
I could do a walkthrough if I hadn´t been so stoned when I made this.
No, in fact you don´t need a walkthrough, because it is really simple. I just found out that most of the things I did arent really necessary.
I used a "voronoi 3d diff scalar" as input for luminosity and displacement of a surface layer.
Now comes the interesting part: I used a power fractal as "scale" input for this voronoi-box.
That´s it. Have fun!
@ Oshyan:
Thanks again.
I turned off shadows and atmosphere in order to save rendertime.
I also like this black and white REM-look.
But I am going to make something more like a sunlit landscape.
Maybe someone else is faster than I am, now that my "secret" is out.
@ all:
I don´t think I am the first one who did this very simple trick, but I did it without help. If you found it here and like, it, say so!

Best Regards,
Jan

[j meyer]

Very nice!

[rcallicotte]

Love your creativity and this is fun!

[inkydigit]

very nice abstract effect!!

[PG]

Thanks!
@ PG:
I could do a walkthrough if I hadn´t been so stoned when I made this.
No, in fact you don´t need a walkthrough, because it is really simple. I just found out that most of the things I did arent really necessary.
I used a "voronoi 3d diff scalar" as input for luminosity and displacement of a surface layer.
Now comes the interesting part: I used a power fractal as "scale" input for this voronoi-box.
That´s it. Have fun!

I've got a perfect solution for that. Thanks for this, I'll give it a go now.

[matrix2003]

I don´t think I am the first one who did this very simple trick, but I did it without help. If you found it here and like, it, say so!

No you are not the first.  Many others have talked about getting stoned while playing with Terragen before! 

[rcallicotte]

Mahnmut, you must have done more than what you've explained here.  Maybe there's something you are taking for granted that we are not.  I did as you suggested without any results worth mentioning.

[matrix2003]

...yeah, I'm not high 
But this does not work.

(or is that a requirement to see the final effect?)

[Mahnmut]

Hmm, sorry Guys.
There where some boxes which in theory I just used to avoid fuzzy spots, and now I see without those it gets all fuzzy.
I send a clipfile to apologize for my frustratingly misleading explanation.
The clamp-function really does avoid "fuzzy " spots, as I thought the multiply should do.
As I now see, multiplying is necessary.
The Powercolour and constant colour smoothens the whole thing a bit, I got that idea from Tangled Universes tutorial  to his brilliant canyon wall.

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=3217.0

I think he mentioned he got this particular idea from someone else.

And by the way, no drugs where involved in the making of this film. erm, image.

Best Regards,
Jan

[rcallicotte]

Jan, thanks.  No apologies necessary.  I just didn't get it and wouldn't have in a million years.  Thanks, though.  Now, I'll get it for sure!