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General => Image Sharing => Topic started by: elipsis1 on March 17, 2012, 01:27:03 AM

Title: red fjords
Post by: elipsis1 on March 17, 2012, 01:27:03 AM
I have been messing with this for a while, but I can't seem to get it right.  A more mediocre offering I guess.  Perhaps a different lighting / atmosphere would enhance it...
Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: elipsis1 on March 17, 2012, 01:28:22 AM
also, they may not look like actual fjords either... just liked the name
Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: elipsis1 on March 17, 2012, 01:29:52 AM
I think perhaps it has too much contrast?

I used the HDR local adaptation to go from 32bit EXR down to 16 bit.

I might rework this tomorrow, but now some sleep :)
Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 17, 2012, 08:30:15 AM
Try adding a warp shader to make the vertical displacement stronger. Fjords in Norway are quite steep. Anyway, this is quite interesting. 8)
Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: elipsis1 on March 17, 2012, 03:31:57 PM
I can't find the warp shader... Is it called something else?
Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: Cyber-Angel on March 17, 2012, 08:32:19 PM
Create Shader (Right Click Menu) > Other Shader. Its at the bottom of that list beneath the Transform Shader.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel 
Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: elipsis1 on March 17, 2012, 11:20:46 PM
well, I have the warp shader at the bottom of my terrain data, right before compute terrain, but I'm noticing that the warp shader needs something connected to it to make it work. 

So many questions...

What would you suggest I plug into the warper to make the terrain steeper?

Title: Re: red fjords
Post by: Dune on March 18, 2012, 04:33:32 AM
The warper won't necessarily make the terrain steeper, you'd have to raise the displacement for that. The warper warps earlier features, and you have to put a redirect into the middle input, the thing to warp in the right input. Into the redirect you can input displacement shader+function (color or something), or a displaced PF, among others. If you search for WARP you'll probably find plenty of examples.