On Watch by Sunflowers159

Terragen • Fantasy • posted on Aug 08, 2005

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I decided to get really ambitious here and go for a Moonscape. It took me AGES to make the crater (It's still not quite the way I wanted it, it's too bumpy in the centre :-() and when I saved the .ter file and reopened it, it had a sort of raised "coronet" in the centre which hadn't been there when I saved it so I had to spend over an hour removing that :-(. It also took me quite a bit of experimentation to get the "sky" to look right. If you look very carefully, you'll see it's just slightly grey. I found out that I couldn't get it absolutely black, so I've had to compromise there. I suppose there IS a way, but I haven't found it yet :-(. However, it's my first attempt at this sort of thing, so here it is. I like my POV-Ray spaceship, so I decided that if one was good in my earlier picture, three must be better :-).

Comments (6)

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Rich2

11:18AM | Mon, 08 August 2005

How to get a completely black sky? Render land only (uncheck the "sky" box). Maybe needs a few more terrain surfaces - even if they are grey.

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Sunflowers159

11:31AM | Mon, 08 August 2005

Ah, thanks, I'll remember that tip next time and save myself a LOT of hassle :-). I'm still a relative newcomer to Terragen and haven't got to grips with all its quirks yet. I'll try the surface idea and see how I get on. I might replace this picture if I prefer the improved version. Thanks again, and thanks to everyone for all the tips you're giving me - I find them very helpful :-).

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ppetersen

5:18PM | Mon, 08 August 2005

Lovely POV, and that crater is superb... agrees with rich perhaps some more surfacing adding children. Would give it lovely tones.... you might want to look into a program called Universe. You can add the sky to the picture from there... :) Would be super with some stars.. those spaceships are a perfect touch...

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Sunflowers159

5:31PM | Mon, 08 August 2005

Thanks :-). I'm still experimenting with surfaces. I still can't work out the difference between children and siblings and how to control them, so I've had some very weird effects in a few of my pictures. I'll keep on though and one day it just might click :-).

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