I'm attempting to recreate a scene from a dream (although I'll leave out the bear and the alien...).
A hilly landscape with a pine forest and ground cover of needles and leaves mostly.
The dream was very realistic in the surroundings, and luckily pretty vivid in memory.
Shame I can't show you what the 'original' looks like
For the current ground cover I only used 3 surface layers with different images of needles and leaves, plugged in as colour and displacement. Works pretty well...
I'll add the needles and fallen leaves objects from the downloads section here in the next version, and some small bushes.
I also need pine trees that have no low branches and s thick stem. A sequoia comes to mind.
In this first attempt I used the free xfrog Grand Fir, but reduced the opacity of the foliage objects to zero. That results in some strange shadows I want to get rid of...