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Title: Alpine heights
Post by: lightning on April 24, 2008, 06:07:21 PM
a project i have been working on over the last week

terrain made in geocontrol there are over 35 surface layers on the terrain which is quite alot for my standards ;D
rendered over 8 cores took 10 hours to render

all vegetation i made myself except for the pine tree which is from my xfrog US conifer dvd

enjoy

here is the link for the tree version
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=nnu2bs5tqyy&thumb=6 (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=nnu2bs5tqyy&thumb=6)
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Mr_Lamppost on April 24, 2008, 08:10:57 PM
I like it, I can almost hear Julie Andrews.  ;D On second thoughts I absolutely HATE it, nobody should ever hear Julie Andrews ever!  >:( :( Pass the sick bag please.   :-[

Seriously though I think the mountains in the background could be a little darker and possibly a bit of variation in the colour.

Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Xpleet on April 25, 2008, 12:37:08 AM
a) What are your cores clocked at.

b) Do you use the deep version that has multicore support?
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Seth on April 25, 2008, 01:18:56 AM
my question is : how the hell did you do the wind blowing snow at the edge of the mountains ?! Oo
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Phylloxera on April 25, 2008, 04:21:19 AM
Beautiful and realistic grass !
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 25, 2008, 04:39:33 AM
Very nice grasses indeed!
You've created a fine piece of work with combining all these elements into a working scene.
The haze is well done, creates the expected depth and sense of scale of the mountains.
The wind-blown snow is awesome ;D Could you elaborate on how you did that?
I like the version without the pine most by the way.

Martin
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: rcallicotte on April 25, 2008, 08:11:44 AM
I agree with Mr. Lamppost about the mountains and not about Julie Andrews.   ;D

Your grass is phenomenal.
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: NWsenior07 on April 25, 2008, 03:40:48 PM
I'm with Seth93. How in the hell did you do that exactly?
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Will on April 25, 2008, 04:01:32 PM
Quote from: NWsenior07 on April 25, 2008, 03:40:48 PM
I'm with Seth93. How in the hell did you do that exactly?

I'm guessing PS
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: lightning on April 25, 2008, 05:24:28 PM
thanks guys!
Will you guessed right ;D
just all i did was create a new layer then used the smudge tool and just lightly smudged the snow on the peak then set the opacity of the layer to 45% just so its not to bold :)

 
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: lightning on April 25, 2008, 05:28:56 PM
Quote from: Xpleet on April 25, 2008, 12:37:08 AM
a) What are your cores clocked at.

b) Do you use the deep version that has multicore support?

what do you mean cores clocked at?
all i did was split the picture into 8 then set the efillity or watever you call it to 8 different cores then put it altogether in photoshop
oh and no i don't have deep with multicore support but i have the normal deep though :)
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 25, 2008, 07:40:24 PM
Quote from: lightning on April 25, 2008, 05:24:28 PM
thanks guys!
Will you guessed right ;D
just all i did was create a new layer then used the smudge tool and just lightly smudged the snow on the peak then set the opacity of the layer to 45% just so its not to bold :)
 

In a TG-pov or a TG-purist's-pov that's a disappointment ;D Nevertheless, it's a very nice touch :)
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: lightning on April 25, 2008, 07:42:46 PM
i tried to attempt it within terragen but its more trouble than its worth :)
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: Xpleet on April 26, 2008, 08:55:27 AM
Well to be honest Lightning i thought you had some kind of leet Intel skulltrail system. Those can have 8 cores of CPU! lol

Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: lightning on April 26, 2008, 05:43:52 PM
its my dads super computer!
Title: Re: Alpine heights
Post by: ramsesoriginal on June 12, 2008, 08:24:12 PM
Since I live in the alps, this seems pretty familiar to me.. it could be placed in the middle of the dolomits!
Just one thought: the forder-most mountains are a bit too brownish to be realistic alpine/dolomitic mountains (like the mountains futher back)