Digital Elevation Map of my local area free from the OS (res is not that great)
Trees from Xfrog
Boat (completely out of place/time but hey ::) ) from Jed at CGShare.com
This is pretty much what the area would have looked like 2500 years ago
C&C welcome.
Cheers
Richard
ps several more in the pipe line :)
Awesome! I really love the way the light steaming through the clouds lights of the plants. Too bad about the grain in the rays. besides that the image is pretty much a photograph. I'm looking forward to the images coming through the pipeline :)
Great lighting and nice image Richard!
I like..............
Beautiful. The sky is particularly exceptional, a very effective use of "godrays".
- Oshyan
Really nice, Richard. Like it a lot.
WOW! I like the lighting, the mood and the concept, excellent work.
Very Nice ^^
Hey Richard, good one here!
One little, tip, although that might be subjective: the underside of the clouds are too sharp and billowry. If you'd use 1/3rd base softness, I bet it will look more realistic.
Lastly, I would reduce the amount of blue on the clouds. It's a tad too much.
Now, that's just two little things, besides which that's a great render!
Cheers,
Frank
I really like this. That godray stuff is a pain to get right. The mist sets things off nicely.
Wonderful fenland scene. Agree about the excessive blueness on the underside of the clouds.
That's a very well done render. How about adding a bit of life (birds I guess)? A place like this must be teeming with birds.
I actually like the sharpness on the underside of the clouds in this case. You do see clouds like this sometimes, in fact they're a little reminiscent of mammatus.
- Oshyan
nicely done!
Thanks for the positive feed back guys :)
I'm really enjoying playing with the data from here:
OS Open Data (https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html)
They do a full free 50m DEM of the British Isles. (About half way down the page). So it's easy to check out your own area. The res isn't as high as I'd like and It might be nice to try to sculpt some finer detail in there.
This is my local area, Glastonbury Somerset UK, close to where I live as I like to think I may have looked a couple of thousand years ago. The area is steeped in myth and legend so maybe I'll some more inspiration there. :)
I'm not going for anything specific with the clouds other that to suggest some drama and of course getting the God Rays to hit interesting stuff. In other renders I may add some signs of life, human occupation etc.
Cheers
Richard
Can you give us more detail on which maps you used as I can't see any DEM data on the website
The data you want is the "Land-Form Panorama" about half way down the page.
Comes as DXF [Contours], ASCII grid [DTM], NTF [DTM]
Quote from: OSThis product is supplied both as a set of contours and spot heights (Contours) and as a gridded digital terrain model (DTM).
Technical details
Format: Contours: DXF™. DTM: ASCII grid and NTF.
Tile size: 20km x 20km
Data structure: Vector.
Resolution: Contours: vertical interval of 10 m. DTM: grid points have a post spacing of 50 m.
Scale: 1:50 000.
Update frequency: Unmaintained.
Supply: Online download and DVD.
Coverage: Great Britain.
It comes as a 530MB zip download that includes both Contour and DTM (Digital Terrain Map in NTF and ASCII format) data. I used the DTM ASCII data.
You need to give them an email address to send the download link to.
Hope this helps
Richard
agree that these are some awesome god rays!
Very nice realization !
Cheers Cyphyr
Being a Somersetian I am of course biased, I love this Richard!!! Gonna have to check that site out. Are the data sets easy to get into tg?
Cheers (my dears)!!!
Jason
:))
I loaded it into Global Mapper and saved it out as a GeoTiff, simple as that. I think here's some free GeoTiff converts. I know there are some free NTF converts, there's some links on the forums somewhere.
Gota couple more brewing, hopefully tomorrow:)
Richard
Does anyone know of any free or cheap alternatives to Global Mapper?
Very nice feeling you have here! Cool rays too!
Ok here's another iteration, this time from effectively the opposite point of view, the other side of the island. I'm not quite so happy with this one and also I have realised that I've loaded the terrain tile too small! They come as 20km tiles and I've loaded it at 10km! This may end up as a happy accident since the compressed terrain may give a better "feel" for the landscape.
C&C as always welcome :)
Hmm, lighting's all right but I don't think much of the cloud actually.
Cheers
Richard
Beautiful and those clouds are amazing!
Very nice render. Love the god-rays :)
Ok here are some updates. Pretty much the same scene each time, just changed the camera and sun position and changed the cloud.
C&C always welcome.
Cheers
Richard
All are nice , but i especially like the tree shadows in the third and the colors of the fourth one Richard!
Rays from the tree shadows in Sunrise2 are quite nice. :)
- Oshyan
I sort of prefer #3 - like the shadows stretched atop the mist
Excellent
Very subtle results. I like the pattern of water veggies.
Beautiful skies and lighting - wonderful work
Very nice render ! :)
like the shadows in the 2nd to last image. And like the pinks in the last image.