Hi,

I am starting a new scene and before it drives me completely insane, how do produce nice "smooth" rolling hills? All I get are jagged hills that look, just plane awful, I can't seem to get the smoothness to make a hill? 

Think of green fields of England to get an idea of what I am trying to do.

Any ideas?

Cheers
Jon

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I suppose you want to use Vue and not GeoControl. In Vue, I'd suggest trying a procedural terrain driven by a "basic repeater" or by a "simple fractal" with very low roughness. Play with the settings until you're satisfied. Probably the "simple fractal" produces more interesting results.

Another hint: in the fractal or noise node settings, you may want to use one one of the axis with a higher value than the other. For example, try with y=3 and x=1. This will produce nicely stretched hills.

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=1880431

There was a thread about this a few years ago (see link) which might be helpful.

Steve

Here's one example by doing like I said.

The settings. You can put the roughness even lower, if you like.

Thank you for the comments Rutra, I am going to give that a go, yeah it has to be Vue, I don't own Geo-control, though I would like to :) 

And thanks for the link Spedler, going to try Rutra's method first and see how I go, thanks again :)

Jon

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 Thanks again Rutra, very helpful, going to give it a blast right now :) I haven't made any images recently where I have spent a long time on them and I wanted my next image to be something special, so pulling in a lot of ideas.

Thanks again mate
Jon

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You're welcome. :-) The same terrain, with slightly less roughness and textured with TerraPak grass.

Ah yeah, thats quite nice, and getting to be near what I want to achieve so that's pretty cool.

Jon

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GeoControl2 operates as a fully functional demo for the first 30 days if you want to give it a shot.  It has a bit of a learning curve but Cajomi has some great video tutorials available in the GC forums and it is well worth the time to watch them (particularly those on isolines and selectors) and then try your hand at creating what you want.

 Thanks Triangle, I have used the demo and my time is up, I can't afford it right now, some time in the future maybe :)

Jon

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 Rutra,

I tried editing the function but I am using Vue 7 Complete, on mine the perlin noise node has 2 inputs not one as in your screenshot, which is the one to connect too?

Thanks
Jon

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That test was made with Vue6 (my Vue7 is rendering now). Anyway I went now to Vue7 and I'm not sure what you mean. After creating a procedural terrain, I only changed this in the terrain editor:

• unticked zero edges
• changed altitude production scale to 0.3
• removed seed node
• decreased roughness
• doubled y wavelength
• decreased the upper limit of the filter to half

Thanks for the info Rutra, I am on my netbook right now but when I get back to the home PC I will send a screen shot of what I meant :)

Jon

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