Hi all! This is the first time I post anything, have been a "peeping Tom before". Im quite new in GC, bought Vue for about two month ago. I hope you will excuse my primitive english, swedish is my native language. And now over to the subject: When you are walking in a forest you can feel the ground/floor vegetation stroke against your feets and ankles. I have tried to simulate this with three identical (in shape) terrain models -one with ground texture, one with leaf texture and the third with flower texture. I have raised the last two little above the ground textured terrain. Can this lead to something or am I complete lost in space? With some real veg added too it would look better but I just wanted to test a "naked" picture first. No more peeping. I will be a better and a more active forum member, I promise :) Martin

This is a wild looking pic, good job. Glad to see you are enjoying yourself. Sharen

You're definitely on to something here, Martin, and welcome to the forum! The ground vegetation looks very natural around the wolf's legs! :)

Ouaoouuu ! Very realistic ! Probably more realistic when you will place brown/dead vegetation on the floor. Good job, Martin ! Yves

Martin this looks great:-)! Love your greens. And about your "primitive english" : Many (lucky, not all!!!)of us speaks primitive english (me:-)), but we always are very welcomed and our natif english or american speaking friends takes it very kindly:-) and tries even to understand our- what we will call in french "charabia"- language. :-) :-) :-) Guitta

Really neat effect Martin, well done. I wish I'd thought of it!

yeah, well done Martin ! I will try this... Eric

I've never seen anyone demonstrate that technique before. I think it is quite clever and will be very useful. Thanks for sharing it! And you English is MUCH better than my Swedish! jon

Wonderful, and your English is fine! I always thank people from other countries who have made the effort to learn English! I only know one language... and you have learned mine, so now we (all of us here) can communicate! This is a big Thanks! :) I really like your picture, and your new way to place some plants on the 'forest floor'! What a good idea!! Lyne

Thanks a lot for all great response! Im blushing.. And now, back to the testing facilities. Martin

heyas; great job! what materials are you using? did you make special transparent materials for it?

First I used selfmade pictures but I wanted two kind of vegs and my time was running out (my wife wanted the computer). So I used readymade pictures by VARIAN.v_fernbush1.jpg & altree4_tBlossom2 with correspondig trans. Now Im working on a new with only brown roots over forestfloor and "real" veg. Im apologize Varian that I forgot to mention you.

Not a problem; I'm glad you're finding such a cool use for 'em. And I had to LOL at the wife wanting the 'puter! ;)

that is a good idea. I've been working on the Fir tree effect mentioned in the manual (similar idea) but this actually has more value since most of my scenes are close up. as for your english, I speak it natively and your grammar is probably better than mine ;) eric