Gila Desert

[schmeerlap]

The Turkey Buzzard and Gila Monster are extracted from photos and intigrated into the scene using Photoshop.
The plants are from Walli's Dry Bush Pack, which can be purchased at the NWDA site.

John

[Phylloxera]

Did you use an image map shader to make your surfaces? I find that gives a strange effect!

[schmeerlap]

Did you use an image map shader to make your surfaces? I find that gives a strange effect!

I'm guessing the "strange effect" you're referring to is the strata pattern on the buttresses. Yes, I did use an image map shader here, with the projection dimensions set at a 4 to 1 ratio and projected using Cylindrical.
And I'm happy with the result of this "strange effect"!

John

[Henry Blewer]

As I said on Flickr, I really like the sand. The image shows off Walli's plants well. Someday I will try an image map displacement.

[inkydigit]

looks very nice John, took a while before I 'spotted' the little critter under the bush....I like the displacements on the cliffs, and the sand texture is excellent, I wonder if the strange effect that Phyllo noted is the larger patches of (dis)colourations in the sand?....I perhaps thought that these could have been made subtler, my personal taste of course, not really a crit, but an observation!

[efflux]

Cool mesa style terrain.

[Phylloxera]

Did you use an image map shader to make your surfaces? I find that gives a strange effect!

I'm guessing the "strange effect" you're referring to is the strata pattern on the buttresses. Yes, I did use an image map shader here, with the projection dimensions set at a 4 to 1 ratio and projected using Cylindrical.
And I'm happy with the result of this "strange effect"!

John
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Ok if it is desired!

[ozijon]

Nice work 

[Naoo]

Hi

Cool. The best in my eyes is the middel part (hills).


ciao
Naoo

[Hetzen]

I like this a lot. Very convincing. Maybe some dead stalks or bleached grass dotted about in the foreground. Great cloud scape, the models work well, the difference in land scapes is well executed with the scree from the mesas really making the transitional step believable. Maybe a little less curvature in the strata.