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General => Image Sharing => Topic started by: Marcos Silveira on October 15, 2010, 07:55:05 AM

Title: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Marcos Silveira on October 15, 2010, 07:55:05 AM
It's a work in progress. I'll try to add variation in the grass and try to eliminate the sloped grass, will add some clouds too and other types of vegetation.
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Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Mahnmut on October 15, 2010, 08:39:09 AM
Very promising start, I am curious where this will end!

Maybe you could try to limit the grass not only by slope but also by height, because your rock has all those little terraces, which will get populated if only slope is limited. On the other hand, that could be nice with some other plants perhaps.

Best Regards,
Jan
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: inkydigit on October 15, 2010, 09:26:16 AM
this is looking real good!
what is in the cave?
very cool terrain work!
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Henry Blewer on October 15, 2010, 10:32:07 AM
It does look quite promising. I like the cave!
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Dune on October 16, 2010, 02:44:05 AM
Indeed, that cave is intriguing. Why not angle a bit towards it, so you can look a little bit more into it, perhaps in a wider vista (2:1)
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Marcos Silveira on October 16, 2010, 05:19:09 PM
With a medium tree some random tall grass and bushes...
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Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Marcos Silveira on October 16, 2010, 05:27:38 PM
Quote from: Dune on October 16, 2010, 02:44:05 AM
Indeed, that cave is intriguing. Why not angle a bit towards it, so you can look a little bit more into it, perhaps in a wider vista (2:1)

I'm afraid because caves tend to be used by fearsome animals and I didn't brought any gun!!! Maybe I should head back to the camping to take up my Magnum. ;)
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Dune on October 17, 2010, 03:08:00 AM
Did you use a painted shader to get the cave?
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Mahnmut on October 17, 2010, 09:35:21 AM
Nice tree and vegetation!
But in my perception it shrinks the whole scene.
When in the first version I would have estimated the cave at about 8 meters high, with the tree it becomes about half that size (in my eyes).
Anyway, I like where this is going!
Best regards, Jan
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Marcos Silveira on October 17, 2010, 01:54:11 PM
Actually the cave is that big and the tree, which is only 13m tall, is in the midground. There seems to have some kind of hole or depression between the ground where the tree is and the plane of the cave. If you pay enough attention You can notice an abrupt end in the ground after the tree, so the cave is way far than we can tell at glance. The cave was not created by some painted or image map shader I just found it there!!! :D To illustrate the size of the cave I'll render the tree near its entrance.

Here is the tree (13m) near the cave entrance. So yes, the cave is that big!!!
But I also felt that the sense of scale was compromised.
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Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Marcos Silveira on October 17, 2010, 02:55:23 PM
Another angle:
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Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Kadri on October 17, 2010, 05:25:16 PM

With a little touch you could use the last images too , Ro-nin ! Nice WIP  :)
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Mahnmut on October 17, 2010, 08:09:32 PM
Ok, now I see it, once you have seen the gap it´s obvious.
I think a little vegetation on the other side of it could make it perfectly clear.
With that sense of scale being switched on the image is really great, although I liked it before.  :D

best Regards, Jan
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: inkydigit on October 18, 2010, 04:37:56 AM
I am still intruigued by this luck cave....looking good so far..
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: MacGyver on November 13, 2010, 04:47:37 PM
This looks great, are you still on it? :)
Title: Re: Niaux-WIP
Post by: Tangled-Universe on November 13, 2010, 05:14:13 PM
Looking very good! Keep on going!

Martin