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Title: An Early Spring
Post by: choronr on February 02, 2013, 12:08:03 AM
I like those uphill points of view; gives one the feeling and thoughts of 'what's up over the hill'. I created a makeover here of a terrain/POV I've used several times over the past few years; this time adding different colors, atmosphere and plants.

Note the grayish blue stains on the red rocks. Looking into this, I found that this is attributed to molybdenum. Almost everywhere in red rock country, you will see this patina among the landforms.

The vegetation used here is:

•   Walli's Dry Shrubs; numbers 8 and number 2. I added different image maps for number 8 shrub making it appear as sage plants. These dry shrubs are available at NWDA.
•   Walli's Wood Anemone available at Silva 3D.
•   Red Bud tree from XFrog available free at http://xfrog.com/130-free-xfrogplants-now-available/ .

If there is enough interest in this terrain, I'll make it available in 'File sharing'.

Enjoy.
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: yossam on February 02, 2013, 12:39:49 AM
I would really like to see how you did the rocks.............great pic.
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: TheBadger on February 02, 2013, 01:36:46 AM
Rocks are sweet! The one in the mid fore looks like a turtle :)
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: mhaze on February 02, 2013, 04:01:50 AM
Fascinating rocks and I like the colour and your use of vegetation
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: Dune on February 02, 2013, 04:06:55 AM
The leaves on the front tree need some opacity file, Bob. Otherwise; very nice!
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: Kevin F on February 02, 2013, 04:28:49 AM
Lovely scene, especially the rocks. I'd love to see how you did them :-)
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: FrankB on February 02, 2013, 04:58:09 AM
I know, everyone else said that already, but... these rocks are very original. Never seen anything like it.

Frank
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: schmeerlap on February 02, 2013, 08:37:05 AM
Interesting etchings on those rocks, Bob. I'm guessing voronoi cracks imbedded into large boulder-sized fake stones.
A higher definition tree near right would greatly enhance this scene.
Great work, Bob.
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: choronr on February 02, 2013, 12:45:51 PM
Thanks to all for visiting. One thing; I did some backtracking and want to add that the file (shared) I used to create those etched boulders is created by 'glen5700' available here: http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=7165.0 .

@Dune: Yes, I must go back and play some more with those tree leaves. Although the file doesn't display errors, there are some issues with it.
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: choronr on February 02, 2013, 12:52:24 PM
Later today, after cleaning up the .tgd, I'll place it in 'File sharing'.
Title: Re: An Early Spring
Post by: efflux on March 23, 2013, 09:46:23 PM
Those rock surfaces are great.