Today`s Doodle

[KlausK]

...as the title says.

CHeers, Klaus

[mhaze]

Excellent! Interesting light and terrain.

[Dune]

I don't know what to comment. The long shadows in the atmo are interesting, but it's very dark! I think picking out a mountain peak and render it more close up with these shadows would be more interesting.

[KlausK]

This one started out with a crater object and ended up like this. I like the wavy forms, but it`s by no means a very elaborate landscape.
Just to post something again, more or less. A little bit of spamming so to speak...

CHeers, Klaus

[Dune]

The cloud formation is kind of foreboding. And it's good to post something now and again. far too quiet here.

[KlausK]

The clouds are a few nodes in the Background shader only. Not real clouds. I have not found out how to fill the entire "Background" with the textures.
Other than that I used a 9mm wide angle lens to really force the perspektive. The 50mm version looks even more boring then this . And the vignette was post.
_{(I am not very often in TG, doing other things...the lack of inspriation and motivation is rather obvious to myself) But I`ll keep trying}  

Anyway, it is always very nice to see all the great work some of you post.

CHeers, Klaus

[KlausK]

Tranquility - Symmetry - Concentric Circles - The Center

This one is a bit more worked out.
A simple terrain.
There is only the "Basic Shader feeding into a "Default Shader"`s Main and Color input.
The scenes "watery" effect is done by rather high Metalness (0. setting, Fresnel reflectivity at 2,
a light lime green Fresnel reflection tint colour and a low roughness value (0.125) in the "Default Shader".
Atmosphere / Haze Density is set to 1, Blue Sky Density to 2.5.
Suns Elevation at 5, Strenght at 20. Soft Shadows at 4 and a Visible disc with a Angular diameter of 3.
No post. That`s it.

The only thing that bothers me are the stripes at the horizon. They are clearly visible in the alpha.
No idea where they come from.

CHeers, Klaus

[WAS]

They seem to be present in the render too. Is there any other displacement on the planet besides the dimple?

[KlausK]

No. Just the dimple.
It seems to be the Atmosphere and the Reflection of the surface.
Changing colours reduces its visibility.

CHeers, Klaus

[Dune]

Cool effect.

The stripes are most likely caused by the reflectivity of the default shader. If you would add a real RT reflective shader, they would probably not be there.
I had the same in my experiments when faking water reflections with high metalness in default shader.

[KlausK]

Thanks Dune.

I changed the colouring of the Haze and upped the Quality settings a bit. That helped (- enough -).
Another slighty darker version. The stripes are still there, but barely noticible.

CHeers, Klaus

[DocCharly65]

That looks somehow creepy and cool at the same time! Interdimensional vortex on the sea... Great!

[KlausK]

Hopefully a happier New Year for all of us in 2022! Keep going CHeers, Klaus

[Dune]

Thanks Klaus. You too, have a creative and healthy 2022.

I like the play of the cloud shadows over what almost seems like ancient manmade structures. Nice.

[KlausK]

Thx.