I think this image has the most populations I've ever tried to use before. There are 26 populations of plants in a 10 x 10 meter square. Mostly a combination of Xfrog plants and lots and lots of Walli's excellent vegetation.
I started counting, but got mad whilst doing so :D
It's very nice, but somehow misses a strong composition (IMHO), and there's one stem + leaf growing through another leaf, kind of in the upper right. I would put a strong focal point in it, the trunk enlarged or some open ground as a patch somewhere, or a beer can :P
the Achillea and Allium petiolata from Xfrog DVD are easy to see - is there more from the DVD? Even though I made those models, I can´t spot more of that DVD.
Apart from that I can see the Mouse ears and the "dirt pack". Usually I like procedural and fake stones, but those "geometry" stones work nice in that scene I think. You did a great job on shading and lighting!
My guess would be that there is also some grass to fill the scene, but I couldn´t spot a specific model yet - which is a good thing!
Thanks! You are right Dune, not much of a composition, I was more just messing around trying to get the ground area to look "full" and diverse while seeing just how much I can stuff into a little area without crashing.
From what I recall the populations were:
2 varieties of Couch Grass (Xfrog - Euro Groundcover)
2 varieties of Common Plantain (Xfrog - Euro Groundcover)
3 varieties of Garden Sorrel (Xfrog - Euro Groundcover)
3 varieties of Mugwort (Xfrog - Euro Groundcover)
3 varieties of Garlic Mustard (Xfrog - Euro Groundcover)
3 varieties of Common Yarrow (Xfrog - Euro Groundcover)
6 varieties of Mouse Ear (Walli NWDA)
4 varieties of Dirt/Rock/Bits and Pieces (Walli NWDA)
I am very glad that it is tough to pick out too many individual plants! That means the test was mostly successful ;D
Wow Hard to believe that this is the low quality version,
It allready looks like a photograph. :)
Thanks N810! The title is a bit deceiving, it is just the lower quality jpg compression version so I could upload it to the forum, the much less compressed version can be found here but it isn't any larger or too much different really, just a little crisper: http://www.archer-designs.com/zp/index.php?album=digital-art%2Fterragen-2&image=plant-life-high-res.jpg (http://www.archer-designs.com/zp/index.php?album=digital-art%2Fterragen-2&image=plant-life-high-res.jpg)
Looks quite natural. I think you did a great job. It is very hard to get the plants from intersecting each other. I can't think of anyway to avoid this.
usually it doesn´t matter when they intersect. Trying to avoid this makes distributions far to regular, because of that I try to live with intersections. If it´s to obvious and I don´t want to change, I try to fix that in Photoshop.