Same scene, different weather?

macanoti · November 19, 2009, 05:12:50 AM

Hello to you all

I wonder if someone can help me find some wallpaper sized renderings (min. 1280x800) of the same scene but in different weather, sunny, cloudy, raining, foggy, snow and storm (lightning). I have found a widget that changes the wallpaper according to weather forcast, that can look awsome on desktop! I didn't find any pictures on the web, maybe someone knows where i can get them? Thank you!

Henry Blewer · November 19, 2009, 08:34:34 AM

NOAA, NASA, Flickr, Deviant Art. There are many sites which may have this. It will take some searching...

reck · November 19, 2009, 10:31:05 AM

Wouldn't this be something you could do in Terragen rather than downloading someone else's images? You could do sunny, cloudy, foggy, snow etc although lightning would need a bit of post pro.

inkydigit · November 20, 2009, 09:57:37 AM

Quote from: reck on November 19, 2009, 10:31:05 AM
Wouldn't this be something you could do in Terragen rather than downloading someone else's images? You could do sunny, cloudy, foggy, snow etc although lightning would need a bit of post pro.

or you could easily use this model by ogre:
http://www.terragen.org/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item10

macanoti · November 20, 2009, 07:04:01 PM

I have searched deviant, flickr, interfacelift before this post, and no luck. Apparently nobody made anything like this except one guy, he used terragen for only 2 images, sunny and cloudy, maybe i can contact him..

I would love to do it myself but have no idea how it works, and unfortunatly i dont have time to practise and learn that stuff now.

Anyway, thanks for your help, and you must admit it's a good idea for you guys to try something like that. Maybe i will try to make those images myself, but in 3ds max, the program i am familiar with...

Cheers

Henry Blewer · November 20, 2009, 07:06:09 PM

It's a good challenge.

MF_Erwan · November 21, 2009, 08:40:00 AM

A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away?

), I played with Terragen 0.9 atmosphere settings, without changing the camera and sun positions:

Erwan

Henry Blewer · November 21, 2009, 08:44:30 AM

I seem to remember a link to a site which showed various atmosphere settings for T2. It's not what the man is looking for, but it was interesting.

TheBlackHole · November 21, 2009, 04:46:26 PM

Quote from: elegac on November 21, 2009, 08:40:00 AM
A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away? ), I played with Terragen 0.9 atmosphere settings, without changing the camera and sun positions:

Erwan

Lol, Star Wars fan too.

TBH

dwilson · November 21, 2009, 07:38:37 PM

Quote from: reck on November 19, 2009, 10:31:05 AM
You could do sunny, cloudy, foggy, snow etc

I thought about doing this awhile ago, but never got around to it.

macanoti · November 24, 2009, 10:40:56 AM

@ELEGAC:
Thanks for shearing those images, they are very nice!

Btw, a managed to make some myself, thanks to tutorials i've found. Looking good so far (i have none/limited skill with terragen).
Will post them soon, stay tuned

Henry Blewer · November 24, 2009, 10:46:48 AM

We are looking forward to seeing your stuff. I've been messing around with this program for quite a while. I am only fair at using it. The best advice I can give is to pick a very commonly used shader/function and play around with it. Power fractals are the most useful, though there was a time I did not think so.

macanoti · November 26, 2009, 11:19:29 AM

Ok, here's what i came up withso far:

I have a problem with snow, didn't do it. And with night time, lots of dots where light rays schoud be? Had to blur it..
Post production done in PS CS4.

Comments are welcome

Kadri · November 26, 2009, 05:16:44 PM

The first one needs a little more tinkering . But the others...i really like them

Cheers.

Kadri.

domdib · November 26, 2009, 05:19:57 PM

If you're looking for snow, there's some experiments going on right now in this thread:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8099.0