Some tranquil test settlement

[Dune]

This is the Stone Age farm that Henry had built, along with some other things I made myself. I have spent all day figuring out why it came out so bland, no shadows, terrible... what, no shadows... I accidentally checked off 'do shadows', and never noticed it. This is the one WITH shadows, and it turned out quite nicely, although just a test for the Roman bridge actually (which of course wouldn't fit into a Stone Age landscape, but nor would the haystack perhaps).

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[Tangled-Universe]

I don't really bother that the roman bridge doesn't fit the scene, or the haystack. This looks very good and that's what counts most for me
Which model did you use at the shores? Looks very convincing!
Great atmosphere as well.

Cheers,
Martin

[FrankB]

these "constructed" scenes are really nice. I've got to try something like this too some day.

Cheers Ulco

[Gannaingh]

The bridge and the haystack don't look out of place in my opinion, nice scene!

[domdib]

Very nicely lit, and kudos to Henry for the farm.

[Henry Blewer]

Ulco, you took my duck and made a swan. 

Very nice render. I would suggest a coracle or a raft instead of the bridge. If they had cows, there would have been haystacks.

[Dune]

@Martin: They are one type of reed I made, a bunch of 100 or so stems actually. The idea was to give them some more color variation, but I just remembered I renamed the node, so it missed its color projection, and they turned out a little single-colored. I'll post an update later.
@Henry: thanks again, but what is a coracle? They'd had have cows, I'll drop some.

I just figured I might use this scene to produce several moods: spring, fall, winter..... back to work again.

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[Henry Blewer]

A coracle is a shallow draft type of boat. It looks like a bowl. The frames were often made from willow and they had animal skins sewn onto them. I heard they tip over easily, but don't sink.

[Dune]

Aha, I know these 'boats', typically prehistoric. Well, I added a 'hollowed tree canoe' in this update. But i's an idea to make one, not too hard in XFrog.
Anyway, here's an update, now with more (but subtle) color variation in the reeds, and some 'old' cows. I worked all day to make this scene into a winter scene, which is now rendering. With ice crusts along the creek banks! Wait and see....

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[MGebhart]

This is a very cool image.

Marc

[Henry Blewer]

The cows look very good. I am getting ready to build another longhouse now.

[Kadri]

Dune i love this scene . Especially the first one.
In the second one the grass (vegetation) looks for me a little out of place .
Because of color ( green ) , luminosity or such i don't know .

Kadri.

[inkydigit]

agree with kadri...very nice!

[Dune]

Well, the grass are reeds, so 1-1.5 meters high. I'll have another look at the colors. In fact another Fall update is running. This one here is the Winter variant. Hopefully more to follow.... like Spring and Summer.

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[Henry Blewer]

It looks quite cold. I think you have done a great job with the texturing of my 'duck' building.