I've had this idea in the back of my head now for a couple of months and had done some playing with it, but school kind of took over. This image is a rough render to get an idea for things. I've got the final one going now, but I did increase the snow's coverage in the final run.
It has potential!
Looking good so far.
I like the clouds, I'm not sure how natural they look but does that matter?
Keep working at it. The lighting needs accentuation. The snow could use a little more variety, maybe in thickness...or something. Not much help, maybe. ;D
This is a good start. The snow is not thick enough, the clouds were not realistic, but there is the potential!
While at work! (http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Grands_Smileys/3d-clavier-lunettes.gif)
Thanks for the input. I'm did some small tweaks to the snow and from what I can see so far, it looks as though things have improved slightly in terms of the depth. As for the clouds I agree that they don't look all that realisitic. I'm going to play with those once this render is done.
This is the first high quality render. I like the snow on this a little better but it still needs work and I didn't do anything to the sky, so I'll come back to those in the next few days.
The render high quality is really better, but I think that the layer of snow is too fine !
I agree with Phylloxera in that the snow doesn't have thick build up like it would naturally.
I agree, thicker snow. And I still like the clouds the way they are. ;)
I was wondering if this snow looked better. I tried applying a clip file I found lying around. I know its low quality but I think you can see a difference.
That new snow looks promising.
Yes. Some better.
In my observation, I'd say it would look a lot better with at least one PFS applied as a Blend Shader to the main terrain. Rough it up a bit to add some variation in color and displacement.
I upped the thickness of the snow even more and added another powerfractal shader to the terrain to give some more definintion to it.
Starting to look much improved. Keep working on it. Sometimes I set aside a TGD for a few days or even weeks, then go back again. This helps me, when I'm bogged down. Anyway, I'd keep at this one, whether now or later.
Well its certainly been awhile since I've gotten to do any serious work on this but, I managed to make a couple more tweaks. Just want to know what anybody thinks about this version. I might go ahead with a full scale high quality render.
Snow looks better and will improve with better quality settings. Clouds are a bit too smeared for my liking, but close enough to something cool to touch up until its perfectly what you want...or maybe it already is as you like it. Your call.
I think that I'm done with this one, at least for the time being, simply because I've lost the original sense of what I wanted it to be. But anyway, I kept the clouds because I liked the sense of movement they imparted on the image which in my mind contrasts the solidarity of the mountains. Thanks for the comments and help.
Quote from: NWsenior07 on April 23, 2008, 12:16:51 AM
I think that I'm done with this one, at least for the time being, simply because I've lost the original sense of what I wanted it to be. But anyway, I kept the clouds because I liked the sense of movement they imparted on the image which in my mind contrasts the solidarity of the mountains. Thanks for the comments and help.
I will put a file .tgc which will allow you to set the thickness to your snow! Try it!
Thanks for the clip file. I won't have a chance to play with it for a while but I look forward to seeing what I can do with it.
I like the texturing and the snow. Lighting is very good, too.