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Title: First sign of spring
Post by: Dm7 on October 12, 2011, 10:34:02 AM
(http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x374/random7878/bestonesofar.jpg)
My first real render with terragen 2, spent quite some time creating shaders and sky mood. However, I can't figure out one thing, at upper left section, the peak seems to be somehow cut off? :/ Super pass doesn't seem to help Once I get this figured out, I'll render it at a much better quality (higher aa etc).
Got a new pc system which can handle it much better. ;) Sweet system I'd say! Any feedbacks are appreciated!
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: inkydigit on October 12, 2011, 11:30:10 AM
a good start!
the black area is 'broken displacements' caused by: extreme; too small or too large displacement values.
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: Dm7 on October 12, 2011, 11:44:07 AM
Thank you inkydigit! :) Ah I didn't know, I'll have to explore on that issue.

To anybody else, I won't be able to work on it again for other few hours at least so... other than that displacement issue, any C&C/idea is very welcomed!
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: Dm7 on October 13, 2011, 08:02:19 AM
Um, here's what happpens when I play around with it. It has evolved to this.. more shaders and tweaks. Entirely different mood, but I think I'm beginning to like this type of style. C&C are welcome. :)
(http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x374/random7878/springisapproaching3.jpg)
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: Kadri on October 13, 2011, 08:19:33 AM

Interesting! The first was interesting too but i like the second one much more.
With just a little less cloud displacement it would maybe look better.
The line in the middle of the mountain looks a little odd to me too.
But you have a image with great potential here already , Dm7  :)
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: inkydigit on October 13, 2011, 10:04:27 AM
second iteration is very cool...agree with toning down the clouds(a bit)...the line is a fractal artefact...try using a different fractal maybe (perlin for instance?) or a different seed?
cheers
J
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: Zairyn Arsyn on October 13, 2011, 10:41:00 AM
your second render looks pretty good imo,
nice darkish atmosphere, clouds
good surfacing and displacements

my suggestion would be to render it larger if you can.
Title: Re: First sign of spring
Post by: Dm7 on October 13, 2011, 11:13:01 AM
Yes I've rendered it at larger size, but then the cloud artefact became more obvious. :( You're right, there's some error in it, I have tried to fix it with no success. I even seeded it to see what happen and still am having same error. I think it's due to depth fractal I assigned to the cloud node. And it's perlin too. I thought maybe extreme wrapping was what made it look like that, but playing with it doesn't seem to solve it either. That's when I hate being a n00b. Haha!
At the bright side, hopefully from experimenting with that, I'd know TG2 from inside & outside. :P

Thank you very much for your feedbacks and suggestions! :) Keep 'em coming! Help me be less n00b please. lol