Meadow WIP

[domdib]

I've been wanting to do a render with Walli's nice Mouse Ears plant for a while...This is very much a work in progress - haven't yet finalised camera placement, density of pops etc, but I thought I'd show it now, to see if anyone has any thoughts on where it might go next. I know there's some issues in the foreground, and I've posted about that elsewhere.

[littlecannon]

To be honest I have no ideas for you as to me this is looking good already. Alright a couple... more grass models to give a more random feel and some debris if you have some. Other than that... I like it as it is.
Cheers,
Simon.

[Seth]

that is a lot of flowers (and very tall too). and only pack there, not on the hill side
maybe you should work on your atmo and light to give some more mood to this render

[choronr]

Very impressive and inspirational!

[Henry Blewer]

I would make the flowers clump more. Increase the area they cover. Use a distribution shader to limit them so they are not everywhere. Make the distribution shader density about 0.3 +/-. Then increase to population density of the flowers. The distribution shader will make it so there are not 100 million, but only a few thousand.
I do this much too often; lower the sun's angle to the horizon. Add more haze. It will help create more atmosphere. (he wrote with tung in cheek) It will also change the lighting, so more global illumination or ambient occlusion may be needed. ( a good opportunity to add subtle coloring)

[choronr]

I would make the flowers clump more. Increase the area they cover. Use a distribution shader to limit them so they are not everywhere. Make the distribution shader density about 0.3 +/-. Then increase to population density of the flowers. The distribution shader will make it so there are not 100 million, but only a few thousand.
I do this much too often; lower the sun's angle to the horizon. Add more haze. It will help create more atmosphere. (he wrote with tung in cheek) It will also change the lighting, so more global illumination or ambient occlusion may be needed. ( a good opportunity to add subtle coloring)

I might add that the use of the Painted shader offers an opportunity to intensify clumping rather well. Perhaps two populations - one with the Distribution shader; one with the Painted shader.

[domdib]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I was definitely thinking of decreasing the concentration of flowers already (and also shrink them slightly). And I haven't started work on the sky yet, although I actually quite like the current lighting. I'll probably do two versions with different lighting/atmo.

Incidentally, the terrain is from the new NWDA default project, and the soil is Ryan's NWDA Dirt pack.