Irish scene

[Mohawk20]

Since I've been to Ireland for a week, I was inspired to try and recreate some of the landscape. I shot a lot of sea/beach/wave photo's, so I might want to give those a go with the painted shader and stuff.

But first some hills...
First image is a real photograph, second is a render. Photo is the closest thing I could find, didn't shoot a lot of hills it turns out.
The render is currently rendering bigger, soon to follow.

Everything is procedural, even the path. I decided to try the intersect underlying effect. So a green surfacelayer with perlin billows displacement favours rises, and a sandy surfacelayer favours depressions. A small powerfractal on the grass layer gives a TG 0.9 kind of look. I tries grass populations, but those didn't turn out very well.

[Tangled-Universe]

Looks promising so far! I like the way you've TG0.9-ed the grasses Good use of intersect underlying features as well.
Looking forward to see where this goes.

Martin

[old_blaggard]

Yeah, I really like the effect that you came up with. Just an idea from an artistic standpoint: it would look a lot more interesting (although perhaps a little less realistic) if the mist were more blotchy.

[rcallicotte]

I like your work and wish the first one was TG2.   

[C.A.C.]

Good work. The procedurals indeed have a sense of lots of vegetation being present.

[Mohawk20]

Thanks guys!

Yeah, I really like the effect that you came up with. Just an idea from an artistic standpoint: it would look a lot more interesting (although perhaps a little less realistic) if the mist were more blotchy.

The haze is just the atmospheric haze density at 10 and overcast sky. I could add a cloud layer at some point.

I like your work and wish the first one was TG2.   

If someone could find me some grass models that are more flat, more horizontal rather than vertical, I might use those for the foreground... and then it would look more like the first one hopefully.

[schmeerlap]

I like the grass with dark heather patches, and as long as the pov isn't too near the ground this procedural bump or image map method is fine. I would try and make the gully that holds the path shallower and more U-shaped so that the path texture sits better on the bottom. This scene has great potential. ps: I'm sure it's possible to adjust the height and direction of grass objects.

John

[inkydigit]

looks good so far!...where abouts in Ireland? I am in Belfast...

[Mohawk20]

looks good so far!...where abouts in Ireland? I am in Belfast...

Thanks... Clonakilty, about 50 km from Cork.

[inkydigit]

Bliain úr faoi shéan is faoi mhaise duit duit!
happy new year to you!!
have fun!

[Saurav]

Looks realistic, great use of intersect underlying.

[FrankB]

I like it, too. However, the image would benefit greatly from more dynamic lighting and more saturated colors. Especially for Ireland.
As for the grass objects: maybe from this camera altitude, you could go into the object node and decrease the vertical scale of the object a little bit, making the grass patch more broad than tall.

cheers,
Frank

[gregsandor]

I really like those clumps of bushes.  Can you post a clip of that shader?  I'm trying to get a similar effect on my Scottish terrain.

[Mohawk20]

Thanks.
I need a specific plant, but I don't know the name, and I can't ask Lightning to make one...
Below are some photographs, maybe you can help me, or even provide it?

[Mohawk20]

I like it, too. However, the image would benefit greatly from more dynamic lighting and more saturated colors. Especially for Ireland.
As for the grass objects: maybe from this camera altitude, you could go into the object node and decrease the vertical scale of the object a little bit, making the grass patch more broad than tall.

cheers,
Frank

Saturation is best done in post for better control.
As for dynamic lighting, any ideas? I could have the sun shine through the clouds from the front, like in the below photograph of the only bit of sunshine we had all week we were in Ireland.