unnamed Mountain (possible NWDA Entry)

[Goms]

@ njeneb: no, its about some "Weistümer" of the region Kurpfalz in Germany from around 1400-1500. The lord came into the Village and had a nice Chat with the Farmers about how they are useed to handle the rights. And somone decided to write this down, so i can read it and write about it.

[Henry Blewer]

That's esoteric! I think you'll write an interesting paper, judging by your nice render here.

[Goms]

Hooray, update!
For now i deactivated the Clouds to get a reasonable rendertime for a bigger image.
I think i will add some voronoi-structures or maybe a goos texture, but overall the shape and the surface are ok for now.
The Snow will get come more attention tomorrow.
What do you think?

That's esoteric! I think you'll write an interesting paper, judging by your nice render here.

Thanks, i hope my Prof will think similar.

[Henry Blewer]

The rock is better. I thought the cloud/snow blown off the mountain was a nice touch on the first render.

[domdib]

The terrain is great - one thing that, for me, is making it look a little unrealistic, is that the shadow areas are very light. Do you have the Environmental Light on surfaces up high? Or perhaps it's just the reflections from all the snow?

[Goms]

it will be back. maybe tomorrow, maybe friday....

@domidb: i think its the soft ambient occlusion i have build in. maybe i will delete this or spend more time on the hdr-afterwork

[deepdish]

this has gotta be the most badass mountain picture i've seen on these forums yet 

keep up the awesome work

[FrankB]

good point Dominic. Goms, yes, rather disable the ambient occlusion here or at least decrease strongly.

The rock surface coloring is looking really good now. Next step of improvement for me would be on the displacements. For now, the whole summit structure looks like a frozen liquid.... hmm, hard to describe. It all kind of "flows" from top to bottom, where I would certainly expect a few outcrops and rocks, more edgy and cracked. Do you know what I mean?
If you can get that going convincingly, I will be deeply impressed and instantaneously want to know from you how it's done

Cheers,
Frank

[Goms]

Heres another one.
I deleted the ambient occlusion and tried to get a more realistic lightning during the hdr-postwork.
Also i tried to get "a few outcrops and rocks, more edgy and cracked". I think i've overdone this a little bit, but when i reduce this displacement 1/3 it should be ok.
The cloud is back, but i still have to figure out a way to get something like this: demoimage
Anyway, when the snow is done at least the terrain-surface is ok so far.

[Tangled-Universe]

The new lighting looks really better!
I think the outcrops are a bit overdone, but not really that much. 1/3 might be a good guess.

I think it would be really cool when you apply (tilted) strata on the steeper slopes.
Feed the powerfractal which makes the outcrops into a colour adjust, reduce the gamma a bit and then use that as a blendshader for your strata to break them up a bit.

Very good work so far, keep going!

Martin

[domdib]

Yes, agree that the lighting is now more dramatic. I'm not sure whether the outcrops are overdone, except perhaps right at the top (maybe it can be limited by altitude??).

Getting the snow right will be an interesting one - I haven't yet managed to produce very convincing snow, although I've got Tangled Universe's snow pack and haven't used it yet, so maybe that would help?

[Goms]

@Tangled-Universe: The Strata was a good idea. Thanks

Also the Snow has a little displacement offset now. I think i will let it look more icy and "older" with only a few patches of newer snow. But now i'm gonna search for my iced structures first.
Then i will have to work on the clouds a little bit...

[MacGyver]

The snow comes out really well now!

[Henry Blewer]

I think a ridged noise on the cloud would do the trick. The hard part would be getting the blowing snow cloud's noise to stretch off axis, if you follow me. A white to black image shader should be able to mask the length of the the effect.

[Goms]

Yip, this isn't easy. It seems to be not possible to stretch the noise in y-direction. Maybe i should try a normal cloud attached to the planet itself with a distance shader or whatever...