Practicing more with Gaea terrain. Two heightfields here, with some added gravel and plants from XFrog. I think this is one of my favorite close-up shots I've been able to get out of Gaea so far.
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Very nice terrain ! Nice composition too !
Awesome stuff. Strata walls look awesome.
WOW
Great Landscape
STORMLORD
Wonderful terrain indeed! Great erosion.
Looks great.
When I use Gaea, I use an an EXR in the image node and then displacement node...that's pretty much the end of it...and it never looks this good close up.
What's your method?
I did some research this software seems to work only on Windows. The quality of your image is superb, do you know if there is a site that offers land either free or for a fee with that quality of land equal to what you are producing? Thanks !
Thanks! I used 8K EXRs out of Gaea for the displacement and color. Loaded the displacement through a heightfield load node, then a resize node and an altitude adjust node. I think there's a few things that made a difference in this scene from what I've tried before:
- I concentrated the entire 8K displacement map into a 100x100 square in Terragen. That helped give a lot more detail in the foreground and midground but also restricts the POV.
- I spent more time on the Gaea colormap, adding more complexity, which I think increases the sense of detail on the surface.
- I intentionally tried to use the added plants and fake stone gravel to convey the scale I wanted, making the nominally 5 km Gaea terrain seem much smaller when resized in Terragen.
Like I said before, this is one of the first close-ups I've been really happy with out of Gaea, so we'll see if it's reproducible, or if I just got lucky this time. ;D
What I found impressive is that it only took two nodes in Gaea to make that geometry, a Perlin node, and the Stacks node in 'desiccated mode. Here are some WIP pictures.
I haven't seen anyone hosting or selling Gaea terrains, but I haven't really looked either. The output files are relatively large, this one was a gigabyte between the terrain and color images.
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Great Stuff!
Looks great.
I find using the heightfield displacement method is certainly the way to go over the way I was doing it.
Gaea is amazing software, but it's a shame the 16K output takes an age
I do find the terrain very nice but I believe this is very achievable within TG with Classic Erosion. But then more stuck in TG.
Thank you for all the information!