This is an image I started working on this morning. Still needs a bit of work. I think it may be just a bit too much in the contrast, and it will have some insect life when done. Maybe add some leaf litter and more stones. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

DC

DC, i have been working on a forrest scene for a while. One thing i'll say is if you tend to have a close up of the ground or show more ground than anything else, try to break the colour up a bit. I would show you mine so you can see what i mean but at the moment i'm in the middle of transfering things from one haddrive to another.

I'll see if i can explain this way, to much green in your image at the moment. Try to break it down with some other colour like maybe a brown. In mine i used two terrains both the same. One i made green and the other was a brown colour.
Now i'm going to let out my secret here on how i got a two toned ground cover ;)
With the terrain that is green(top terrain), go into the terrain editor and edit it so you have holes in it in some areas, go back to the work screen. Now with the bottom terrain choose a brown textur for it, add a bit of bump to it, raise it up so it just starts to poke through the holes you made in the top(green) terrain. with all that done it is just a matter of moving the top terrain up or down until you get an almost even look to it.

Hope this helps and works for you. It took me sometime to get my ground texture looking like it is.

Message edited on: 11/04/2004 00:41

Hi dcindian, A couple of things I have noticed that may help is you might wanna try to lower the specularity in the textures over all. As it is now it looks a little to synthetic to be found in a forest. Also what Lunartick says is right on. The main focal point of this ground really needs some varying colors. More dirt colors, and maybe even some bits of smaller vegetation protruding out of the ground in order to break up the large area of green color in the center. The color of ground you have here would be okay if you had something on top of it that was the focal point rather than just the ground. What you have here is a great start, and has lots of potential. I'm interested to see where you take it. Good luck. Michael

Thanks for the help I am trying different textures for the ground and have added more ground litter. Seems to help a lot DC

It looks incredible, awesome awesome. I love how the tree's shadows fall on the ground, it really makes the look. Great texturing.

The ground and moss texture are working really well. A few little animal or bird footprints on the terrain, maybe? looking like they're going to drink from the puddle. I love the moss, is it a photo-texture?

Thanks the moss is a tree. I will post an updated image this morning it is morphing into a completely different picture. DC