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Title: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 30, 2010, 04:15:59 PM
I used several power fractals as masks for this one. Marc Gebhart's Pines and Sugar Maple. Walli's grasses and ferns.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4477366902_692415d515_o.jpg
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 31, 2010, 02:07:33 AM
Sweet image Henry :) I see you're getting really comfortable with rendersettings etc.
The grasses have nice subtle variations. I'm not very sure about the tree-bark-texture, but further the trees look good.
I like these type of images a bit more with less "filling" of the atmosphere.

Martin
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Mor on March 31, 2010, 06:32:50 AM
Very nice and calm looking image. I agree with TU that the bark texture looks little weird.
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 31, 2010, 07:58:12 AM
The bark is straight as Marc made it. Besides the power fractal mask test, I was messing with function driven clouds. I wanted to see it. But some wispy cirrus would have looked nice also.

Thanks for the comments!
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 31, 2010, 08:18:27 AM
What did you try with the clouds? Sounds interesting.
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: inkydigit on March 31, 2010, 09:49:06 AM
agree with TU...I have played with warped and functioned clouds (with some nice/interesting results)...I will see if I can dig out an image/clip file
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 31, 2010, 10:33:47 AM
I added voronoi noises and a displacement shader to the density shader. Nothing Volker would bother with, too simple.
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Gannaingh on March 31, 2010, 01:30:33 PM
Sweet! I want to go explore or lay in the shade!
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 31, 2010, 02:46:18 PM
Yea, me too. It's a bit too pristine to be real. I am going to add some weeds and stuff to make it less 'Park' looking.
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: choronr on April 01, 2010, 01:45:30 AM
Looking good. You need to build on this one with additional weeds, flowers and maybe a slightly higher haze.
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Zairyn Arsyn on April 01, 2010, 09:07:15 AM
the tree bark looks weird, out of place - imo.

other than that, this is a really great render,
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: gregsandor on April 04, 2010, 12:49:02 AM
What grasses do you use?
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: Henry Blewer on April 04, 2010, 08:13:04 AM
Those are Walli's, his grasses and ferns from the sampler pack.
Title: Re: Meadow with Pines
Post by: gregsandor on April 04, 2010, 08:35:20 AM
Thanks.