Daniil's erosion plugin is amazing :)
And this is an amazing (and beautiful) use of it :)
Superb!
It is indeed, and you made very good use of it. Great piece of work!
WOW!
Double Wow!
triple wow!
Beautiful!
nice one, Martin !
Looking again at it, there is a strange look to the water, like a double render or something.
I don't know how to explain it. it is like you had 2 renders and merged them but not really on top of each others but a bit off.
Or like the water is above the river bank
I can see a few spots where it seems that that is happeningm especially where transparency seems lacking the transition can be quite harsh and thus can look as if the water is floating, but it is not. Neither is it two renders, nice idea though :)
The river shape is 'filled' with water using a second planet.
It is not perfect or does not look perfect everywhere, but it is the best I can at this moment.
Thanks for posting this here as well, a big echo on the previos Wow comments. This encourages and inspires me to have another go at rivers. After my first few semi-successful attempts I've been firing blanks at the screen....
Quotelike a double render or something
I noticed that as well (but didn't want to spoil the fun ;)). I think it's the way the banks are quite 'similar' to the river itself, just shifted a bit, making some sort of repetition. Perhaps a fractal warp or PF masking of the banks mask may annihilate much of it.
I notice the water worked on as well, looks a little like glacial runoff ... did you use any of the maps from the Erosion plugin to give a sense of "flow" to the water.
I like the braiding effect. From your POV it looks as if that leads to a large river. Is that what happens, or is the braiding continuous, not decreasing with altitude? I see this setting used as creating many concepts either way.