Lighthouse WIP

ghotir · January 31, 2008, 11:29:27 AM

This is my first post of a render. I'm using the free version cause I don't have the cash right now, so the quality is a little lower than I would like it. Also I'm still learning how textures work, so the cliff isn't textured yet.

Any suggestions or criticisms would be welcome.

dhavalmistry · January 31, 2008, 11:31:23 AM

it has a "silent hill" feeling....very nice!

NWsenior07 · January 31, 2008, 11:39:13 AM

Interesting concept, the bits of terrain coming out of the water could use a little be of attention.

Seth · January 31, 2008, 11:47:45 AM

the fog, just above the water, seems too dense... (but it's perhaps only my taste) it looks like clouds...

rcallicotte · January 31, 2008, 12:32:50 PM

...just the textures. Can't wait to see, when you're finished.

ghotir · January 31, 2008, 01:16:54 PM

I'm having trouble with texturing. I've searched for tutorials, but I haven't found anything that helped me. I'm trying to put a "stone" texture on the cliffs, but when I do it, it loses the ridges and becomes very flat. What am I missing?

dhavalmistry · January 31, 2008, 01:21:23 PM

you are missing displacement!

ghotir · January 31, 2008, 01:30:34 PM

Quote from: dhavalmistry on January 31, 2008, 01:21:23 PM
you are missing displacement!

That is what I thought, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. The cliff is already displaced the way I want it, so how do I get my image map to conform? I don't see the way to do this.

dhavalmistry · January 31, 2008, 01:54:28 PM

well....since its a rather steep slope....you have a choice to make here...you can keep the displacement you have now and apply a rock texture on it as a "Plan Y" projection (make sure you get a seamless texture so you can set the Repeat X and Repeat Y options in image map shader), but I dont think it would work 100%. Your 2nd option is to use redirect shader and use powerfractals for displacement in X and Z

ghotir · January 31, 2008, 04:42:06 PM

That is working... Now I just need to wait for it to render again.

I don't understand why it is working. I don't really understand the different projections.

dhavalmistry · January 31, 2008, 05:27:45 PM

plan Y is working??...good then....dont forget to apply small scale displacements!

ghotir · January 31, 2008, 06:13:11 PM

Well Plan Y looked good in cropped renders just to see what it would do. I'm doing a full render now. It will take another few hours. I didn't do any small displacements like you suggested, so I will probably have to render it all again. I really need to get me a render farm.

Is there currently anyway to run a render from the command line? Something like "tgd.exe lighthouse.tgd FullRender"

dhavalmistry · January 31, 2008, 06:21:04 PM

yea there is a tool available on this forum somewhere to take control of the whole command line thing

ghotir · January 31, 2008, 06:35:49 PM

Darn... It looks like I got save up to buy it before I can use the command line. One more reason to try to pull the cash together.

ghotir · February 01, 2008, 12:01:02 PM

Well after the full render, the project was really stretched. So it looks like I'm going to have to try it the other way. We will see how it goes.