Will the "Alpine fractal" be improved by the final release?
- Terje
Hi Terje,
Perhaps everyone knows this except me, but what's wrong with it?
Regards,
Jo
Well, first of all, it's very, very slow :), but my main problem is these strange displacment error's.
I often find myself I nice view, but when I render I see that some of the mountains have this ugly displacements on them.
- Terje
agree (like big step on the edge)...
but i saw some good results with it in this forum so maybe it's not buggy ^^
What's wrong with it? ;D
Not a very realistic model of a mountain. Lacks angled strata patterns (Might be done with strata & outcrops shader) and particularly several layers of erosion which i know is hard to do procedurally but with out this mountains in Terragen 2 will always look fake. I guess this is the magic treasure for all who wait is layered procedural erosion including river system channels.
There is a bug in the displacements but we're not able to fix this for the 2.0 release.
It's slow because it's a difficult algorithm to evaluate quickly. You need to be very sparing with the number of octaves. It does what it does :) Combine it with other shaders to improve it how you like.
Matt