Here's a little one I'm currently working on. Thought I'd try out a few palm from Lightnings pack.
C & C welcome.
Iain
Nice. Good lighting. Clouds could use a little work. The river needs some work...and transparency (I know, I know). Lovely palms and nice job on the grass on the bank.
this is looking preety good....love the grass...
Thanks guys. I'm not happy with the clouds or the water either. The grass was just 2 surface layers with very fine displacement. I'll chance the clouds and water and re-post.
Iain
good grass
I feel so silly. I had the water shader before the powerfractal, change them around and it looks like good water again!
I also spent some time on the clouds and made the rocks a bit smaller. I am happier with this one, but as I type this, I have another render on the go. A few boulders scattered amongst the palms and some more colour variance for the grass. It looked a little dead for my liking.
Iain
far better ^^
Like Seth said...
oh I love this....except the clouds a little rough for my taste....
Plants grow where the water flows. In a river as slow flowing as this one, the banks should be crowded with plants. I like the rest of the picture, but the river looks fake to me, like the cement "rivers" we have here in California.
The grass is really good !!
Quote from: lonewolf on March 10, 2008, 02:53:01 AM
I feel so silly. I had the water shader before the powerfractal, change them around and it looks like good water again!
Been there, done that ;D
A few plants among the rocks might be nice, rocks and water much improved. Not at all sure about the roughness of the clouds, I would have just added height to the ones in the first version.
This is much improved. Looking good.
Here is the latest version. Something happened to the grass, didn't displace. Will be fixed in the final. I think this is near completion now. The clouds aren't the little puffy ones I wanted, but they're not bad. I made the rocks a little smaller and spread them amongst the trees, it seems to have worked out ok.
Iain
ground's black ?!
Yeah I know. Somehow the displacement and colours got messed up between test renders and I didn't notice (probably working on clouds). I've fixed that now and improved the colour and distribution of the grass, am just fixing a small rock issue I have, then will render again over night and post the result. Apart from the ground, what do you think?
Iain
i really like the tree distribution and your river but i think the rock are a bit too big... and too regulary place... but the last render (except for the ground) is far better than the first one ^^
Here's a better version. The grass rendered like I wanted and the rocks are now in 3 sizes, large, medium and small. I calmed the water a fractin too. I like this version the best.
much better yeah !
perhaps some colour variation on the rock ? ^^
I had this one dialed in nicely I thought, and 100 hours into the render it got down to the bottom of the pic and I saw this. Was very upset when I stopped the render. It's not what I wanted at all. I changed the colour variation of the stones and the colour seems to be affecting the grass as well. The rocks are after the grass in the network. Any ideas?
Set the slope constraints to not include the rocks.