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Well this is a first, I couldn't think of a name for this image, so if any of you guys can think one up I'll repost it with that title ;)
I made the old farmhouse, baseball cap, stile, and the wheel in truespace 6.6. I made the flowers in PlantStudio.
While playing in Vue, I came across a pretty cool and rather effective method of creating distant forests without using millions of alpha planes or tree models. First create a terrain, and reduce its vertical height. Then apply a bump function to it (from within the terrain editor), keeping the function to a small scale across the terrain. Try to create a small-scale undulating bump rather than a strong pointy bump (this represents the profile of the tree tops. Then apply the colour - use a colour function to mix, randomise it. Now here's the cool part: use a variable transparency function on the terrain. What I did was set the transparency so that it was dependant on height, setting the slider to 100%. Thus, the transparencies only occur at higher regions of the terrain. I also used a complex fractal function to randomise the transparency, and played with the scale. The overall result, I think, is pretty effective. It works best if the terrains are set at a distance, and in silhouette against the sky.
There ends the mini-tutorial :D
Cheers
Comments (11)
Moebius87
To all those long lost summer sunsets of our childhoods... wonderful image. A bit grainy in parts, but an overall great image with very warm lighting. Nicely done! :o)
Rob2753
Lovely composition excellent render
Trouble
A very pretty and serene pic. Thanks for the info on the distant trees, but did you know that there is a distant tree terrain object in the Vue objects? I've used it in several images and it works quite well.
Irish
A gorgeous, beautiful scene - love it!!! And thanks for your mini-tute...also try, like Trouble suggests, the distrant tree object, which also works quite well.
Mondwin
Peaceful and lovely view!!!EXC. bravo!!V:DDD
JoeBlack
Duh, I didn't think of that LOL And actually it's constructed in the same way...so disregard my tutorial lmao. Dayum.
zxcvb
Beautiful image and colours, well done:-)
Twiggy05
Very nice joe even seen on a phone. Beautiful sky :o)
Onslow
Good colour and light :)
CarolSassy
You coulda named it 'WHOA!' heh heh heh! q-: This is absolutely gorgeous! Beautiful scene, lots of cool details, and I especially enjoy the perspective! V (:
lingrif
Lovely image - great lighting/atmosphere