River

[bobbystahr]

Looks better way back when than the modern view with all the earth movers....

[AP]

A lot of nice things going on all over. The populations look well layed out and believable enough. I like that small path.

[masonspappy]

Dune, looks beautiful, and I'm very curious about render settings you use to get this image to achieve the sharpness and detail seen here? 

[Dune]

In fact it was rendered bigger (3000px wide) with soft shadows on at detail 0.8 and AA8, but reduced using Irfanview and sharpening. Not the perfect degradation of course. And, btw, didn't use a compute terrain here either, so it was a relatively fast one at 2hours. Here's a part at 100%.

[AP]

Forgive me for inquiring just in-case this was asked by other people but how can you get away without using a Compute terrain shader?

[Dune]

Try it and see what happens. If you use final altitude and no slope, that goes very well.

[Gannaingh]

This looks great! I've enjoyed seeing your progress on this one

[AP]

Try it and see what happens. If you use final altitude and no slope, that goes very well.

If it shortens render times even to some degree, why not.

[masonspappy]

In fact it was rendered bigger (3000px wide) with soft shadows on at detail 0.8 and AA8, but reduced using Irfanview and sharpening. ...

Well, guess I learn something new everyday.  Somewhere I got the idea in my head that my image size could not be larger than my monitor size (1920 x1080).  But when I rendered larger (3000x1687 p) and saved to hard drive, the properties file did indeed indicate the render was 3000 x 1687.  Thanks Dune!!

[zaxxon]

The sense of scale and distance is really an eye-catcher, and the vegetation looks very natural. Always a pleasure to view your work!

[Dune]

Thanks guys.
@masonspappy; that's a strange notion. I'm glad your off it.

I needed some new Roman houses, so I built some. The tree is an olive for which Jochen remodeled the trunk in ZB.

[mhaze]

Great river scene - I wish I had your sense of colour. House scene is great too!

[Kadri]

I like the last image. The color use looks a bit different here then your other images Ulco.

[Tangled-Universe]

Great progress Ulco on your river.
I like this better than where it came from. Good work!

I really like your 'deviation' too, the last render.
Which grasses did you use there?

[Dune]

I just made 2 new wild ST grass patches yesterday, that's them. As well as some pigeons