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Title: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 25, 2015, 06:52:44 PM
Started with a modeling exercise using Fake Stones in the Terrain Editor and worked well enough to texture, which worked well enough to populate with Walli grasses, which all together provided a nice little stage to view my PoseRay displaced rocks. C&C welcome
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: AP on August 25, 2015, 07:20:50 PM
Neat, very tundra northern-like. It looks cold and dry.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: yossam on August 25, 2015, 08:57:35 PM
I like.........any info on process for "Poseray displaced rocks"? Sounds interesting.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 25, 2015, 09:10:04 PM
Quote from: yossam on August 25, 2015, 08:57:35 PM
I like.........any info on process for "Poseray displaced rocks"? Sounds interesting.

Take a basic average poly rock shape into PoseRay and give it a texture that has a bump map as well and also I Cubic map it in the U/V tab if it has no U/V map.
Having prepared it go into the Groups tab and click on the Subdivision tab, and when there I always sub-d it twice.
Then go to the Displacement tab and load your bump map as the Displace map. The highest I've gone and got useable product was.001 at the white square
Next click 'Adaptive subdivision before displacement' and leave default
Then click 'Create gradient map' and when that finishes click the 'Displace geometry' button.
Let me know how that works for you.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 25, 2015, 09:38:35 PM
Quote from: Chris on August 25, 2015, 07:20:50 PM
Neat, very tundra northern-like. It looks cold and dry.

That's what I got off it as well...must be approaching Autumn
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: Kadri on August 25, 2015, 09:48:18 PM

Nice image and Poseray is sweet.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 25, 2015, 11:23:39 PM
Quote from: Kadri on August 25, 2015, 09:48:18 PM

Nice image and Poseray is sweet.


Thanks, and it is isn't it. one of the things keeping me on a pc stead of a mac.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: AP on August 26, 2015, 01:33:44 AM
Quote from: bobbystahr on August 25, 2015, 09:38:35 PM
Quote from: Chris on August 25, 2015, 07:20:50 PM
Neat, very tundra northern-like. It looks cold and dry.

That's what I got off it as well...must be approaching Autumn

Autumn can't come soon enough, except the dry part.  ;D
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: Dune on August 26, 2015, 02:31:58 AM
Really nice render, Bobby. Is the smooth 'bubble' a fake stone or a Poseray stone? It's kind of weird in this awesome terrain. BTW, I'd leave this sky out, or make a smoother one.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: DocCharly65 on August 26, 2015, 02:32:29 AM
I like it very much!
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: mhaze on August 26, 2015, 04:06:45 AM
Nicce one Bobby.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: j meyer on August 26, 2015, 12:43:05 PM
Very tundraesque.The rocky parts are cool.
And, yep, what about that smooth bubble thing?

Edit: And what is the Terrain editor you're refering to?
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 26, 2015, 04:05:28 PM
Quote from: j meyer on August 26, 2015, 12:43:05 PM
Very tundraesque.The rocky parts are cool.
And, yep, what about that smooth bubble thing?

Edit: And what is the Terrain editor you're refering to?

The place where you build the Terrain in the Node Editor or the pane on the left that reflects that...The Terrain tab gets you there . That bubble thang is a displaced in PoseRay rock that I was attempting to make a crystal map work on...not really successful. All the foreground rocks ar PoseRay displaced objects. The rocky outcrops are Fakestones warped with the warp shader..works rather well for massive style rockiness...
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 26, 2015, 04:08:53 PM
Quote from: Dune on August 26, 2015, 02:31:58 AM
Really nice render, Bobby. Is the smooth 'bubble' a fake stone or a Poseray stone? It's kind of weird in this awesome terrain. BTW, I'd leave this sky out, or make a smoother one.

Agree on both counts, the 'bubble' rock is a failed attempt at crystal and the clouds were slated for a delete or redoing...thinking losing them is the best bet...was using them for shadows on the terrain but can do that with an off camera cloud just as well.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle*UPDATE*
Post by: bobbystahr on August 27, 2015, 01:12:07 AM
Heeded all the advice ans replace the 'bubble' rock with one of Walli's no opacity all poly pine bushes and a bunch of anemones under it.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: Dune on August 27, 2015, 02:04:18 AM
Great. It almost looks like a 'karst' terrain, where parts of the soil collapse.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: DocCharly65 on August 27, 2015, 03:19:18 AM
Really much better with the new shrubs instead of the bubble rock! :)
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 27, 2015, 10:24:45 AM
Quote from: Dune on August 27, 2015, 02:04:18 AM
Great. It almost looks like a 'karst' terrain, where parts of the soil collapse.

thanks for the unintentional tip on 'karst' terrains...got a page of em sitting on Mr Google's page for inspiration..the holes in my "Myst" like render are also similar when you see that whole terrain sans objects.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 27, 2015, 10:25:19 AM
Quote from: DocCharly65 on August 27, 2015, 03:19:18 AM
Really much better with the new shrubs instead of the bubble rock! :)

Yup...now my desktop image...
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: j meyer on August 27, 2015, 12:34:18 PM
 8) :)
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: AP on August 28, 2015, 02:24:23 AM
I will take a trip on a horse through that landscape. It looks like good enough country riding.
Title: Re: Another boredom doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on August 28, 2015, 01:44:19 PM
Thanks all...calling this one Final....