From a series of fake stone studies really (that's why it's number 83), based the terrain of punkinman render. Uses an alpine type ter file that I saved. It had Terragen erosion and then this added some of Danil's erosion on top of that.
Great use of resources! Love the POV on terrific terrain. Nice shadows! Envious of displacement technique on fake stones. Quite well done I would say.
Good one man,,,I like the un-softened shadows as there are no soft shadows in space...makes it more real to my eye...
Terrain and lighting is really nice. I have a comment on the 'snowflakes' ( :P) though. Are they stars? I would lessen them, make them sharper, and more into clumps.
Ditto Dune. I also like the colour and POV/composition very much. Excellent work.
Thanks,
Yeah, the stars do resemble snowflakes. Hey, new falling snow method ! :P
The stars are coming from a photo image on a background sphere, a really hi-res photo of the Milky Way so any clumping or lack of it is "natural" but the original image is very sharp. Maybe I will switch to using a pinpoint procedural starfield, but maybe attempt to mask it by real photo to get the stars sharper but still in real Milky Way configuration.
You could take this render, add a layer in photoshop where you paint in the milky way in white, make the photolayer black, then export as greyscale, and project by render camera as mask for the pf's.
Quote from: fleetwood on November 05, 2016, 06:31:45 AM
Thanks,
Yeah, the stars do resemble snowflakes. Hey, new falling snow method ! :P
The stars are coming from a photo image on a background sphere, a really hi-res photo of the Milky Way so any clumping or lack of it is "natural" but the original image is very sharp. Maybe I will switch to using a pinpoint procedural starfield, but maybe attempt to mask it by real photo to get the stars sharper but still in real Milky Way configuration.
I don't know which method you used, but with a 60 degree FOV you would need at least an 10 000 - 12 000 pixel wide image
and even more depending on the image or something like 0.16 size (for spherical image) for a good HD image. I try always to use bigger ones.
Other then that i like the image, looks nice :)
Well, tried out a few ideas. Eventually just using procedural stars without any fancy mask seemed to have the best look to me.
You nailed it. Great.
Convincing extraterrestrial planet surface! Great!