Here's a crop from a picture I'm working on. The full FOV extends all the way past the horizon to make the landscape look rather large. Those shadows on the clouds sure make render time go up.
i like this kind of view. hope to see the full FOV.
Very nice. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
Waiting for more. :)
Yeah, looks great!
nice one again.
For cropped images you can just get cropped c&c darth.. :D
But it looks very good yet!
Just the clouds are kind of too "fluffy" and need way more shape or sharpness to meet the actual shown surface detail i'd say.
I'm sorry for the delay, everybody. Life got busy in the last couple days so I haven't had time to do any work on this project. Hopefully I can get an update in the next day or so.
Ok, It's about time i got this done. Life gets too busy for Terragen sometimes. I don't like the small puffs of fog in the midground, apparently I forgot to save it when I masked them by the larger cloud shapes. I think I want to make the fog areas larger and less noisy with larger fractal sizes as well as work on the lighting of the scene.. Thanks for taking a look.
This looks much better. The point of view did the trick.
Stunning view! ;)
I did some work with the lighting and clouds trying to get more of an early morning feel to the image. I need to lower the transparency values in the plant leaves since they're almost glowing in the shadows. I want to add one or two more cloud layers to build more depth to the fog in the background.
The lightning did the trick for sure!
If someone would tell me that this is a snapshot from a movie...I would just buy it.
Well done again ;)
Last one is a real improvement on the first, and thats saying a lot. Looks very grand!
Better lighting and color now but I really preferred the clouds in the previous ones. These are too flat and consistent, little variation. Still, a great (and very promising) scene overall, regardless.
- Oshyan
Very nice. But my first read was difficult. Clouds in the mid ground seem too flat. Didn't know if it was cloud, snow or sand.
Nice scene so far! Is this a real DEM?
Thanks everybody. Since the clouds seem to have been more popular in the first two images, I'll look at recreating that effect again ;)
Icegrip: This is indeed a real DEM, four of them actually. You can see where two of them come together along the right side of the image on one of the near mountains. I need to remember to align those properly.
The lighting on the clouds is tricky. I think having changed elevation of the sun to get the early morning feel is preventing from getting the same depth of shadows in the cloud layers that was present in the earlier images. I might have to reset the sun elevation and just change the sunlight color to give it the morning feel.
This has a great photographic feel to it.
-Greg
You have good light coverage, both right and left ...this one is the best.
Odd, I would think a lower sun angle would give you *more* "depth", shadows, etc. in the clouds...
- Oshyan
Well, I don't know what I did, but I'm now getting the amount of shadow from the first images. I've copied the cloud layers from the previous version into the new file, even though they were identical in every way, and it did the job. Weird.
Here's a crop render of the lower half of the picture withe clouds looking all fluffy and pretty. Getting the background clouds to look how I want them could take a little time.
Here's the full view with the puffy clouds. I want to decrease the number of small puffy clouds in the background, but overall I'm pretty happy with who it's turning out.
Good refinements, this is turning out beautifully.
This would be a great piece for a flyover animation.
-Greg
Here's the final, nice and big to better capture the details. I like how it has turned out.
Absolutely cool one man! 8)
LOVE the lower left hand side! THat ground/terrain/tree cover is great. On the lower/mid right hand side, those outcrops look sweet.
Like badger, I also like the geology anomalies. I like to do this sort of thing too. Just trying to imitate nature in a simple morning fog can be really exiting.
Strange what excites us eh? ::)
Russ
Nice one. Especially the shadows of trees in the clouds.
Fantastic. The foreground looks amazingly like areas of the Shenandoah Valley I've seen from the air. (if you can just ignore the background mountains)
Excellent work!
Really nice.
Thank you, everybody. I'm really happy with how this one turned out.
Really impressive POV and render ! Excellent ! Clouds are just perfect !
Paul
Oh Darth, that looks fantastic..!
yossam, here's the screenshot of my terrain node setup.
Jeff
Your texturing is really nice and and the terrain is well done. I think I do see where the population boundary is, unfortunately. Blending that into a procedural (fake tree) displacement is a tricky task, but something to consider IMHO.