Haven't played with TG in a while, been super busy the past couple months. This is the first steps on a new WIP, I've been looking at possibly moving to Montana sometime this year, so this is supposed to be based off of areas I've been looking at. Still a lot of tweaks to make but this is just the bare-bones idea so far. C&C welcome, Hope you all like it!
Looks great.
I would move there. 8)
Because I am ignorant about adding objects except in population on a plane or one by one, did you use a map for the foreground trees? I know you used to be able to kind of weight paint an area in other programs. Did you do something similar? And, where is the tut for that? I read and follow all directions so as not to crash my programs. Thanks in advance. :)
Nice country scenery there. The only thing I would change is maybe more shaders for the mountains in terms of colors. Everything else looks fantastic.
Beautiful as is.
Very subtle, I like it very much. Especially the cool lines of front trees have a nice design. Painted shader?
Hey, that's great, I love the sense of scale!
Nice! The colors are a bit washed out, but that is no big deal. Love Montana, spent some of the best time of my life there. Would return in a heartbeat if I could make a living there. Where are you thinking of moving to? It won't be the flatlands I can tell... ;D
Super grat sense of scale and space and nicely arranged vegetation
Agree with mhaze!
Thanks everyone! I'll probably have an update in a few days, when I get a little time to work on this and actually focus on it ;) I don't like to half @$$ projects, especially ones that have a bit of extra meaning to them personally.
Quote from: otakar on April 04, 2016, 12:08:04 PM
Nice! The colors are a bit washed out, but that is no big deal. Love Montana, spent some of the best time of my life there. Would return in a heartbeat if I could make a living there. Where are you thinking of moving to? It won't be the flatlands I can tell... ;D
Either Missoula or Bozeman, with a tentative plan to stay a year to get residency and apply for graduate school at UM or MSU. What area did you live in? Any suggestions?
Quote from: luvsmuzik on April 03, 2016, 05:10:34 PM
Because I am ignorant about adding objects except in population on a plane or one by one, did you use a map for the foreground trees? I know you used to be able to kind of weight paint an area in other programs. Did you do something similar? And, where is the tut for that? I read and follow all directions so as not to crash my programs. Thanks in advance. :)
I just used a painted shader as a mask for the tree distribution shader, really pretty easy to do. I'm sure there's tutorial's somewhere around here, though I don't think it's nearly as complicated as it might seem ;D
Thanks, I suspected it was some sort of paint mask shader.....off to see if I can figure that one out. Your image is great. I am working on a project to finally complete objectless file started way back in version 9. Still have saved tuts from way back then. Once a nut, always a nut. :)
Great vista. Like it a lot.
I can only recommend UM. Bozeman is in a great location and MSU is nothing to frown upon, but I left my heart in Missoula... Friendly and walkable town - the river runs thru it - and easy access to tons of wilderness. Glacier NP is just 3 hours up the road. UM is a wonderful school with a beautiful campus and some outstanding faculty, but under a bit of administrative mismanagement right now unfortunately resulting in lower enrolment and therefore budget cuts...
Go Griz! Any specific questions, just ask.
Still haven't done anything with the mid-ground open plain, I do intend to make that a bit more interesting and flow better with the foreground colors. Playing around with the clouds I ended up making things a bit more "dramatic" and while I like it I don't think I'll keep it, not quite the feeling I was going for. :P
Otakar, I may very well have more questions in the future. Sure is a small world to know someone on here has experience with where I'd like to move. Missoula and UM have attracted my attention more, mostly because it seems that it has more to do, certainly a bit bigger than Bozeman. While I love the outdoors and the countryside, The fact that Bozeman has very little around it and is so small itself would worry me a bit, particularly in the job market. I'm glad to hear such positive things though!
The flowers and shadow really add something, great!
That looks really beautiful!
Nice update! Colors are great now. Clouds could be changed up a bit, possibly stretched. I like the field.
Here's a test of some new changes I made earlier today. Thoughts?
I prefer the picture Montana V2 with the cloud shadow .
Montana V2 for me too.
Montana V2!!
V2
V2 too!
Great work!
:)
J
I'm with the crowd..V2 for me as well
I didn't have the old settings saved, so now I'm just playing around with clouds, trying out different things. I think I see what went missing from v2 is the cloud shadow adds something to the sense of scale.
Still working on it :P but here's an update for now
Quote from: Cocateho on April 07, 2016, 10:38:59 PM
I think I see what went missing from v2 is the cloud shadow adds something to the sense of scale.
eggs ackley
If you don't save incrementally, you could copy some nice nodes/settings, like the clouds you had, and set them aside, continue with a new set. Too late now, though.
Finally came back to this, although I'm gonna wait for TG4 to do a final render after seeing the improvements in the clouds :P
Made the mistake of trying soft shadows on this one, luckily I let it render while I went out of town for a couple days because it took 35 hours :o ... and not worth the little difference I don't think.
Anyways I feel this is a good combo between what I likes and others seemed to like out of v2 but keeping some of the added complexity of v3. Critiques and suggestions still welcome though.
Shes a beauty, I look forward to seeing the final with v4 Clouds
What Danny said...
Looks great.
Beautiful scene! I went to Helena, Montana a few years back and fell in love with it, very beautiful area; your render is a great representation of the area. I can't wait to learn how to place objects, plants and models in my scenes. Nice work!
Really worth the 'waiting', very fine render.
A very very beautiful panorama! Good work!
Thanks everyone! I'm stoked for TG4, seems like there will be a lot of big improvements, can't wait to see what it can do!
So here' it is rendered in TG4, not going to call this final as I'm sure I'll learn more things that I can do with it as time goes by.
Quote from: Cocateho on July 03, 2016, 08:17:14 AM
So here' it is rendered in TG4, not going to call this final as I'm sure I'll learn more things that I can do with it as time goes by.
You could sell this as a photo...lovely...but as always...keep.on.tweakin.
Very beautifull!Rendering quality seems much higher. I wonder if the conifers in the background are not too large compared to trees jutting out into the fields?