Here is a starting project, afternoon was rainy.
Just starting, not satisfied with palm trees populations and ground can be improved.
C & C welcome.
David
Your palm trees appear to have default shaders on them. I think you could up the realism a lot by adding translucency to the leaves and upping the specular highlights. I was playing with some xfrog trees recently too and ran into the exact same issue. After making those adjustments I found them to be much more realistic.
-Greg
you're right. that's Xfrog palm trees and it's not the first time i have this issue.
gonna make tries on translucency and highlights.
Thanks for your comments
Looking good. I agree with the surfacing of xfrog plant comments. Usually I set it to about 0.8 and work down. Slight soft shadows will help too.
keep at it :)
Richard
I also found the diffuse values to be inadequate as well. I think the default was .5, but I upped it to 1. I also put my translucency at about .9 too to get enough light transmission through the frond leaves.
Thanks to both of you
I put something about these settings here
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,17185.0.html