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Title: Lava Test
Post by: riche on August 12, 2010, 04:40:09 PM
Was Playing with clouds and ended up with this, god knows how lol, anyway I'm in need of inspiration as to what to add to it.
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: jbest on August 12, 2010, 06:04:20 PM
This is a lava test? If that orange stuff is lava then there is some things you could do to make it better.

If you want fresh lava you might want to make that orange lava a little more reddish. Dry lava, as everyone knows, is black. You might want to stick some black specks in there anyway.

I guess it depends on what kind of lava you want, but anyway there's my suggestion.

Jahnu
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: Mahnmut on August 13, 2010, 12:18:14 PM
I think the overall colour is not bad at all.
I presume you where not thinking of "dry" lava when making this.
The colour is simply a function of temperature, so more or less yellow is definitely allowed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aa_large.jpg

In order to make the image more interesting you could ad some displacement to your "stream", it hasn´t to be as liquid/ flat.
Also I think some specularity would be interesting and not unrealistic.
Some vegetation bursting into flame on contact with your lava could look dramatic, but won´t be easy to achieve.
have fun!
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: Moonseed on August 14, 2010, 07:35:15 AM
I did a lava scene a way back with good results too, plenty of displacement and warping on the child layers and add luminosty as well
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: domdib on August 14, 2010, 08:14:15 AM
Perhaps some drying lava at the edges, with Voronoi cracking?
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: Moonseed on August 15, 2010, 11:44:32 AM
Voronoi crackling? whats that?
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: domdib on August 17, 2010, 09:18:42 AM
@Moonseed - here's one example http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=7165.0
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: Moonseed on August 19, 2010, 12:56:28 PM
just downloaded the tgc file, thanks glen for that one.............i will study, i will learn , thank you very much people
Title: Re: Lava Test
Post by: glen5700 on August 19, 2010, 09:47:12 PM
No problem, check out Franks file here - http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6432.0 (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6432.0) these are very useful, you can never have enough cracks in your tool bag.

And one more http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8849.0 (http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=8849.0) thanks to dandelO.

Glen