An Early Spring

[choronr]

I like those uphill points of view; gives one the feeling and thoughts of 'what's up over the hill'. I created a makeover here of a terrain/POV I've used several times over the past few years; this time adding different colors, atmosphere and plants.

Note the grayish blue stains on the red rocks. Looking into this, I found that this is attributed to molybdenum. Almost everywhere in red rock country, you will see this patina among the landforms.

The vegetation used here is:

•   Walli's Dry Shrubs; numbers 8 and number 2. I added different image maps for number 8 shrub making it appear as sage plants. These dry shrubs are available at NWDA.
•   Walli's Wood Anemone available at Silva 3D.
•   Red Bud tree from XFrog available free at http://xfrog.com/130-free-xfrogplants-now-available/ .

If there is enough interest in this terrain, I'll make it available in 'File sharing'.

Enjoy.

[yossam]

I would really like to see how you did the rocks.............great pic.

[TheBadger]

Rocks are sweet! The one in the mid fore looks like a turtle

[mhaze]

Fascinating rocks and I like the colour and your use of vegetation

[Dune]

The leaves on the front tree need some opacity file, Bob. Otherwise; very nice!

[Kevin F]

Lovely scene, especially the rocks. I'd love to see how you did them :-)

[FrankB]

I know, everyone else said that already, but... these rocks are very original. Never seen anything like it.

Frank

[schmeerlap]

Interesting etchings on those rocks, Bob. I'm guessing voronoi cracks imbedded into large boulder-sized fake stones.
A higher definition tree near right would greatly enhance this scene.
Great work, Bob.

[choronr]

Thanks to all for visiting. One thing; I did some backtracking and want to add that the file (shared) I used to create those etched boulders is created by 'glen5700' available here: http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=7165.0 .

@Dune: Yes, I must go back and play some more with those tree leaves. Although the file doesn't display errors, there are some issues with it.

[choronr]

Later today, after cleaning up the .tgd, I'll place it in 'File sharing'.

[efflux]

Those rock surfaces are great.