Okay, I've spent some time with Terragen 2 now, and this is one of the more satisfying things I came up with so far. I wanted to have some more fog right over the lava, but that was absolutely killing the render time, so I left it like that. What do you think?
looks good so far, maybe add more surfacing to the canyon walls...
could we see more of the lava? :)
perhaps you could change the pov slightly so we could see more lava
I really like the glow on the canyon walls! Is that from a light source or is it just coloring on the walls?
zaai999, I actually didn't want to show too much of the lava... I originally wanted to only have some red glow coming from the depth of the canyon, but when the plane having red luminosity turned out to have a nice appearance I decided to show it at least to some extent. How do you suggest I improve the surfacing of the walls (there are quite a number of shaders at work already)?
As for the glow, it is in part the luminosity of the plane (at least I assume so), but largely an additional red light source. The walls are actually black. There is a third light source illuminating the clouds on the left from below.
You can google "lava tubes" and choose large images to see rock textures, for your walls.
Nice start!
Looks pretty effective to me. I'm not sure the walls would be that cherry colour though.
They actually would be "that cherry color", because of the glow emanating from the lava.