Wanna play with me ?

[manu49]

A very simple composition for beginners like me with a Mini Cooper object (thanks to Mandrake) and a image map shader applied on the ground.
Bowls are simple spheres with different reflective shaders.

[Henry Blewer]

This has a sort of Bryce look to it. I would try using some power fractals for the ground. They break up the regularity of the surface better. Planetside has some free objects. http://www.planetside.co.uk/content/view/21/36/ They are at the bottom of the page.

Terragen.org has some cool stuff also. http://www.terragen.org/index.php

And NWDA http://www.nwdanet.com/ has some really good stuff for free and for sale.

[Dune]

If you replace the ground photo texture by some 'real' fake stones, it would greatly benefit. Keep them low, like pavement.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i agree with dune on this one.

i like the chrome spheres though. (reflections)

[manu49]

Thanks for your tips.

So I wanted to make your improvements (use fake stones instead of pavement map and add PFS displacements)
but i don't succed to open my work !!!

I get the error : "H:\Terragen\TGD\mini.tgd: Parse error at line 1499: not well-formed (invalid token)"
Is it a known problem 

[Henry Blewer]

Open the tgd file in notepad. Check your file names. There maybe be an character that Terragen 2 does not parse. Umlauts are one case of this.

[manu49]

Thanks njeneb !

I succeed to open my work by removing the "è" character in "boule arrière plan" (name of 1 PFS)

Then i have modified the ground by replacing the image map shader by flat fake stones with 2 PFS.

Finally i used Photoshop to adjust the contrast.

[Henry Blewer]

This looks much better. The image tile technique works good for man made things like walls, walks, and roads. You can add a power fractal between the image map shader and the surface layer to vary the color. Just plug the image map shader into the power fractals Blend by node connection.