Quote - I did happen upon it and believe me, it was no Picasso.  Nothing memorable and nothing artistic about it.  For those that missed it, you are all better off without viewing it.

A fairly ignorant statement....

If anyone knows the name of the artist I would love to find the images deleted, the one with her just standing in the window is gone too and that image I am sure did not violate anything, if I recal right she was standing naked looking out the window...

For ppl interested there wasint much "good" stuff to see, it was not a render that was aimed at realism, the woman had her hand on her vagina while she appeared to moan with pleasure. If the artist had given it a different title it would probably still be here today...

No im not looking for sex images I come here to view and show art. That piece was art, it happened to have a suggestive title.

I guess I do not agree with renderositys views and moderation standards. There is not much i can do but leave...this place has been great for me for years but I guess I am done here. My account can be deleted by an admin as soon as they get the chance...

Oh Ok thankyou. That what was giving me problems.

"Well, if it was aorund yer neck, you wouldn't get very far :D"

Wait till Flavor Flav gets a hold of it....

Hmm ask in the G@P forums?

I think you may need a python script to get a boat to roll over the waves as well. I may be wrong but I think so.

Here is a tutorial I suggest, http://geekatplay.com/tutorials/epiclandscapes/greenvalley/ its for making a greenvalley but provides a easy way to roughen up snow on mountains in the background.

Yes, shouldnt be to hard and there is a number of ways you could do it. You can have a mixed material and play with how it shows up on the terrain(altitude, direction, slope) or add a noise and bump funtion to create even more randomness. Also you could have a base terrain of snow and put in some gray rocks and make cliffs and spotts where there is no snow. or a combination of both.

For ice formations you can use rocks and give them an icy material. I bought the Cliffs and Caves pacage off of 3dcommune and it comes with some great cave and cliff rocks and materials. I have a site stored that has lots of great free ice materials but I can't find it. I will post it when i find it. 

It depends if your trying to create a huge scene of a large expanse of land or a close up of a singular area. I agree though Geekatplay has some great snow tutorials. There forums are small and very helpful though. post your WIP or idea there and im sure they will help you make it look awsome.

I am new to the 3d art world and am finding that to make things you want you need to use other objects. My recent work I need to make some tall islands that were smaller at the base than on top. the terrain does not allow that so I used rocks and tweaked them to look like islands.

Thanks for the tips. I didn't mean to say it wasint possible, I just don't know how. I have learned a lot in the past few days regarding textures and how it works. I will explore it even more once I finish my 3d ecosystem study scene. I have gotten to a point of very basic undertsnading of the funtion editor but im going to need to make myself some sort of cheat sheet to tell me what each node and funtion does so it sticks in my brain. otherwise whatever I do is a "Calculated fkup"

Unfortunatly I can not work on the above scene anymore because I never saved it. It was my first personal render and nothing I was extremly excited about. I see all of these addons out there but i think I want to get a better handle on the program before I dive into outside programs to learn.

Oh duh, I knew that :P Thanks for the help, sent me on my way.

Wow, I can't wait. I did the 3d Ecosystems tutorial today and decided to explore it more on my own by creating a sort of rockslide off of a mountain. So I got my "slide" down pretty good and then in the end I could not change the material of the rock. If I did try and change it it would either delete my cube(that the rocks are in), or texture the cube. Is there a way I can keep the the cube transparent and change the material on the rocks? I have tried adding layers, moving the layers, etc tec. can't seem to find the way.  If worst comes to worst i can make the "Chipped" material work but it really dosent show up well enough over the dry brown landscape it is supposed to be one.

Thanks for the replys. I do find I try and jump into things that are over my head with these kinds of things. Sometimes it provides good challeneg sometimes it just gets me frusterated. 

I discovered Geekatplay yesterday and have followed some of the tutorials I thought applied to my ambitions the most. I found a great set of tutes on the function editor as well so I have learned a lot today. In the making of terrain and textures area but I am still struggling with getting a brown patch/es to show up in snow. Like you said it just takes patience, time, and experience. 

I have used layers to add 2 materials per terrain I just figured out how to add more(felt like an idiot) so that will give me much more diversity and options. I will definatly be checking out those products you mentioned. This scene here I was trying to recreate the turning leaves of aspens in the fall. They create a nice gold that I caputred well in here but I could not create an aspen tree, even in the editor. it requires new leaves and things I don't have. Thats for another time though. 

I will explore more of what G@P has to offer tonight and maybe get a terrain I can work with. Thats the hardest part so far, is getting a terrain that looks realistic.

Anyways enough of my ranting about my problems, I thank you for your input and help.