Waterfalls

[Dune]

Hannes 'floating' made me think and experiment a little. Thanks, Hannes.

[EoinArmstrong]

Wow that's great!  What did you use for the falls?  Clouds?

[mhaze]

Clever.  I must sort out waterfalls!

[TheBadger]

Cool. Love these kinds of things. Have to recommend real flow for 90 bucks though.
Its rather clear at this point that clouds are just never going to cut it. I like it for mock ups though and for conceptualization.

[Dune]

Realflow for 90 bucks? I thought it was more than a grand?

Falls are partly just colored cliff side + reflection, partly clouds.

[Hannes]

Glad, that I made you think, Ulco.  That looks great!
But I think, now it's secret sharing time! What does partly clouds mean? How did you do that precisely?

[Dune]

The upper half is a mask projected from within the planet, smoothing the rock displacements and providing watercolor+reflection, but as soon as this is starting to bend inwards near the bottom of the planet, it's taken over by clouds, masked by the same mask. It's a bit tricky though to get it right; the stretched cloud doesn't really warp against the rock, unless (maybe) I use the special cloud stuff, but I didn't.

[Hannes]

Ah, thanks for your explanation, Ulco.

[j meyer]

Looking at this suggests it might be time to rethink the theories of how
planets come into existence.

[RArcher]

Those are a lot of fun, very cool stuff.

[choronr]

Letting your thoughts run wild ...very nice.

[Mr_Lamppost]

It looks really nice, the only thing I can think of to add would be some dampness to the rocks close to the waterfalls.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i like this, its interesting:)

i like the B&W version better, the B&W photographic look

[TheBadger]

Learning addition, Ulco. Sorry, should have clarified that in my first post.

[Dune]

@Michael: Maya has got flow stuff, just have to find out how that works...