I'm not sure about the clouds yet. They look great (I think), but I don't know if they fit this image.

Like it so far...:)

Sore back from planting all those trees huh? Terrain and trees look good. I agree about the sky.

Rayraz, The trees look really good, the clouds look good too, could you bring them in a little lower and dampen some of the sherbit colors in the sky? water looks out of scale with the trees. - TJ

I personally liked the sky. I think the water does look odd, but I'm guessing once you place all the trees, it will look fine. I'm not sure whether one bird, like an eagle soaring would look better than several. The whole picure is looking really good, though. All these pictures make me want to travel. Lin

The waves are is too much ocean-shaped and too little river-shaped I think. I already changed the colors of the sky. The general cloud-shapes are the same. I hope the water get's better with all the trees in place.

this must be on the other side of the mountain of my original entry post =c) seriously, though, it's looking great. I just hope that with all those trees, that you get it done in time to be judged

I hope so too. Rendertime isn't going to be a problem. It renders lightning fast (for a bryce scene) only 15 minutes at 600x800 on normal AA.

But planting all those trees. It takes so much time and I've got so little of it.

1203 trees? You are CRAZY. I like that. ;-)

I like it! I think when youve planted the next 1203 trees on the right, the water will look great! The sky is nice as well, and the cranked angle really adds to the piece!

For trees on those far off terrains, do two passes of slope noise and height noise, a smoot, and then several more passes. This will give you little bumps that look like trees from far off.

When doing far off trees I make a few in tree editor, give them various colors, then group them together. You can group the trees at odd angles to each other and then they look like they were meant to be that way in a mountain scene. Give it a try, it's just duplicate, move, turn. Dead easy. Catlin

BTW - Rayraz, I'm starting to get vertigo every time I look at this picture of yours. Are we seeing things from a birds eye view ? Catlin

I do that, too. I will make one tree become maybe five, by rotating and doing slight angle and size changes on the duplicates. I've never used such a quantity, though. It must be a hunger for as much realism as possible. Possibly hidden under that canopy are millions of tiny, digital caterpillers munching on the leaves. There are nematodes in the soil and cicadas humming from trunks and branches. They cannot be seen, but they are probably down there, working to add realism to the scene. Off the subject, but I once did an image of a man on a islet with about four palm trees. It was a simple image, but I wrote that just off to the right, just out of sight, I had a four-masted schooner, highly detailed, with a crew of thirty-five different characters. It slowed down the render, I said, but I put it all there so the man you COULD see would be looking at it in a realistic way. I sometimes forget my Poser characters aren't living actors.

if a character needs to look at something that is outside of the view it is always a handy trick to place an object where the character should look. it does make it easier to give the character the right 'staring-pose'. That's a very clever trick. About the caterpillers etc. I'll add them too if I have time :P Do you have any caterpillar models?