Well, I was to impatient to watch all those leaves being rendered,
so I tried something different:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5040610212_291873e740_b.jpg)
Grass shader by dandelO, tree and bad resolution by me.
And before you ask: it smells like freshly cut grass!
That's actually a fantastic idea, well done! You could really refine this into some very abstract water-colour type image. I love the originality. 8)
Interesting and nice , Mahnmut :)
Reminds me of some images of rock band album covers.
Amazing! I would like to see you do the rest of the image in the same style.
This is actually pretty cool, agree with others about the style.
Awesome. Look's like that tree just caught a bunch of (green) cotton in it's rather small amount of branches. Looks real good!
wow that's really nice ! agree with Ryan, hoping to see more of this style !
very cool idea!
like toxic fungus spores....very original and cool!
Hi
Excellent Idea!
Did you try a lower quality for the cloud,
maybe it look better and faster, if rendered from distance!?
ciao
Naoo
creative idea!
If you used a high haze density with this, it would help with the rest of the scene to have a watercolor look.
Great idea. The tree is quite interesting.
8) Thumbs up! 8)
Thanks for all your kind words!
Ok, here is the all-cloud version.
Planets surface is disabled, all you see is atmosphere (and the tree object of course.)
It really looks a bit water-colour-like.
What I tried to do was more like surrealism, Magritte for example.
Anyway, it works more or less.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/5042338401_1c5104a0f1_b.jpg)
I am not that content with it though, it looks just like a simple tg-landscape made of simple tg clouds- that´s what it is.
If I could get some of the grandeur of the really sophisticated cloudscapes into an interesting groundbased scene, that would be something. Maybe I have to look into the shared clouds thread.
@ njeneb: do you mean the tree model or the cloud idea when you say interesting?
I tried to make a model that looks quite different from different sides to be useful in populations, but didn´t use it that way yet.
Problems with the leaves.
Best regards,
Jan
Both. But the idea of using a cloud for leaves is more intriguing.
This is a very interesting idea to make vegetation. The grass (if it's indeed clouds) looks quite convincing. You sometimes have these soft fields of flowering grass. Can you elaborate on your procedure? I would guess you don't need much detail to produce the 'grain', hence it wouldn't take ages to render. Would it be possible to have a field of grass like this follow a hill?
---Dune
I really like it ... cool stuff :)
Thanks!
One little crop against the sun:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5043592857_c44b643c89_b.jpg)
@ Dune:
It is indeed clouds, if you doubt it, then maybe the method is useful.
Although the idea to make this image came from some problems with my trees leaves, I never intended to use clouds as real substitute.
I wanted it to look like clouds, and hence used at least medium quality settings.
I used 7 cloud layers (far mountains,hills, far bushes,two layers of "grass", the yellow "flowers" and the tree) and distance shaders, the planets surface is disabled.
I am sure there is some way to make the clouds follow the terrain, maybe dandelOs metaclouds could help. His grass-shader definitly rendered faster than my clouds.
I would rather have it look more like real clouds in the shape of a landscape than looking more "realistic"
Best Regards,
Jan
Looks like you've discovered an effective watercolour technique using low sample (noisy) clouds. Great initiative.
John
Nice work! Very inventive. 8)
Dune, Hetzen made some very nice clouds which are bound by a heightfield shader. http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=10582.0
And there was also an older thread by mhaze named 'clouds follow terrain' here too... Actually, the continuation thread was better... http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5307.0
Thanks, Martin, re-found those posts... brain clicking... working on curly waves again now... maybe...
No clouds today- at least no green ones.
The clouds in the skye are by Matt, Altocumulus on page 8 of the cloud library
I had the first of three days of my final exams today
-it went well, and now its gone!
two to go.
This is a more postworked Pic.
I should do more postwork in future. Work is to hard.
I still had some problems with my leaves, but the outcome reminded me of a tree full of glowing bugs like I saw in bolivia.
Tried to emphasize the effect.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5054632415_ce1ac167ac_b.jpg)
here is the unchanged version, I think the "bug" was sitting in my opacity image.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5054631325_e985f980fb_b.jpg
Best Regards, Jan
Hi Jan,
very interesting Point and Field of view ... and I really like the overall colours.
One thing that comes into my mind right now ... it looks like that you use some higher contrast settings, like I do.
Therefore you might want to try some extravagant colour settings inside the tree ,-)