test roche n5

[Oshyan]

Just a quick note, remember that the "Ultra" and other quality settings for rendering only have an effect when *not* using Raytrace Objects! Which you should almost always be doing (raytracing objects I mean). In other words those settings for "ultra", etc. rarely matter.

- Oshyan

[Jo Kariboo]

Just a quick note, remember that the "Ultra" and other quality settings for rendering only have an effect when *not* using Raytrace Objects! Which you should almost always be doing (raytracing objects I mean). In other words those settings for "ultra", etc. rarely matter.

- Oshyan

Thanks Oshyan for the reminder!

[Jo Kariboo]

I am not sure but perhaps it could have to do something with the height and the pancake effect (I can't look for the correct node at the moment - sorry)

My personally trick if I don't find other solutions would be to retouch with plants... 

Thank you for your reply! 

[bobbystahr]

Just a quick note, remember that the "Ultra" and other quality settings for rendering only have an effect when *not* using Raytrace Objects! Which you should almost always be doing (raytracing objects I mean). In other words those settings for "ultra", etc. rarely matter.

- Oshyan

D'oh....why do I always forget that...for some reason I had it in my brain that it only worked on populations and i forget the ray trace feature....

[Jo Kariboo]

I had a little luck using FSS as a child of a surface layer. Like hooking it to individual layers and from there you can assign different colors, size, and density per layer, etc. I also used a distribution shader to assign altitude and slope when hooking a FSS to the base layer. Depends on what you have hooked to each surface, but it usually works for me.

I also was wondering about setting population to random size and rotation but that is getting complicated for me.

Great render btw!

Thank you for your reply. I tried your approach in the days, I'm not sure I understood the techniques. Hopefully tg4 easier for simple adjustment.

[Jo Kariboo]

Although I have not yet found the solution to the fake stone. I made some adjustments and tried a new POV.

[bobbystahr]

Although I have not yet found the solution to the fake stone. I made some adjustments and tried a new POV.

To me they seem more 'in'  the ground...Like the new PoV

[mhaze]

You won't find boulders on slopes greater than 45 degrees and the larger ones are generally lower down.  I maybe teaching my Grandmother to suck eggs here but If you use 3 sizes of the fake stone shader merged with highest raised set and plugged into a surface shader with slope max set to 50 and fade zone to 5 you'll get a good result.  I'm not sure why your stones seem to be balancing on points but play with the pancake/height settings.

[Jo Kariboo]

You won't find boulders on slopes greater than 45 degrees and the larger ones are generally lower down.  I maybe teaching my Grandmother to suck eggs here but If you use 3 sizes of the fake stone shader merged with highest raised set and plugged into a surface shader with slope max set to 50 and fade zone to 5 you'll get a good result.  I'm not sure why your stones seem to be balancing on points but play with the pancake/height settings.

Thank you very much mhaze for tour observation. I should these days try new test with your tips.

[Jo Kariboo]

Finally I redid completely the fakes stones. After some test I used the same value slope contrains of  the two previous picture is 65/20. For larger fakes tones  that have perceives left down they are on other surface layer to a different altitude constraint.
Thanks for watching!

[bobbystahr]

Finally I redid completely the fakes stones. After some test I used the same value slope contrains of  the two previous picture is 65/20. For larger fakes tones  that have perceives left down they are on other surface layer to a different altitude constraint.
Thanks for watching!

much more better stones...well handled.

[AP]

Excellent progress with the stones. The slight clouds and haze are a good touch. It all looks very natural in this setting.

[Dune]

Yes, this looks way better.

[mhaze]

You've got it

[DocCharly65]

For me it's good now! Very good!