Desert Oasis by dburdick

Vue • Landscape • posted on Feb 27, 2006

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Description

Vue5 I and PSP for the grasses around the water. I was screwing around with procedural terrains and I came up with this. You're not going to belive it, but the terrain texture is a single procedural material from the standard Vue material library called "Chipped with Paths". I have no idea in the world how it turned out this way. It seems that the procedural terrain I created somehow reacted with the material to form sand in some spots, dirt in others, and the rock-like material you see in the foreground. Go figure. Sorry abut the large size, but I just had to show the texture on this. If any one wants the terrain for this, you can download a zip file I created for it here: http://www.skinvue.net/downloads/DesertOasisTerrain.zip The whole zip file is only 300KB. I put two versions of the terrain inside so that you can see the effect of the key filter inside the procedural function. Basically, if you just play with the shape of the filter, it will adjust the micro-roughness of the terrain.

Comments (26)

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Kath13

2:20AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Don't you just love it when good things happen accidentally. This looks very realistic - well done!

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Vertecles

2:25AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Excellent work Dave...I like it. As for the the terrain changing. Changing materials on procedurals terrains always has this sort of effect. It has to do with the attributes of the new material, which has different blends -position, altitude, slope, orientation etc.

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dburdick

2:39AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Thanks Vertecles. I just went back and checked and indeed the material is a mixed material that changes by slope and orientation. I still never would have guessed that the material would map itself like this. Thank goodness for happy accidents.

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Skipychic

3:15AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Amazing work Dave

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ShadowDN1

3:44AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

excellent work,looks most realistic.

erka

4:07AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Love it. Especially the background areas, which have just the right amount of bright light and dusty haze.

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czarnyrobert

5:00AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

This looks spectacular - probably the best 3D oasis I ever saw ! Terrain looks a little bit strange - but maybe you've discovered some "hidden vue feature" ? It is worth of investigating what happened - on first glance I have impression that you used a mixed function that produces smooth terrain on some parts and highly bumped on other. I have to check if I can get something simmilar. Excellent and Vote!

BorisB

5:21AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Excellent work! The vegetation looks very realistic!

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Dotthy

6:33AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

I agree with BorisB! Fantastic pic!!!!!!!!!!

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Primal

7:10AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Very realistic Dave!An amazing discovery!Excellent!!

visionality

7:25AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Stunning!

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Irish

7:50AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

This is an absolutely beautifully done scene! Bravo! And thanks for the zip!!

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dburdick

8:14AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

I decided to take out the ditch I had in the original version after my wife Victoria told me it looked like a trail of elephant droppings, or words to that effect. So its all sand now.

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Nuria

9:12AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Incredible, wonderful, real, fascinating oasis!!! Love me!!!

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vlgraphics

11:09AM | Mon, 27 February 2006

That is fantistic!

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Umbetro38

4:47PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Oh looks very realistic - the groundtexture looks excellent for this - zhx for download

Bert007

7:42PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Wow, a very good accident indeed. Textures are awesome. Makes for a very realistic looking scene, great trees placement in the background. I would place this in my top ten most liked renders.

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Lyne

9:09PM | Mon, 27 February 2006

Absolutely excellent! I thought for a minute that a photograph was put in the Vue section - just stunning!

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LordWexford

1:06AM | Tue, 28 February 2006

Great terrain & surface - however they were obtained! :-)

UweMattern

7:33AM | Tue, 28 February 2006

Impressive oasis! This procedual terrain is really worth some experiments... Thanks for sharing it. Love the lightning in this render. ~Uwe

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Djeser

7:47AM | Tue, 28 February 2006

Superb scene, Dave, makes me really really thirsty, lol! Very cool what that material did, thanks for sharing it, will take a look at it.

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coa

12:52PM | Tue, 28 February 2006

Always fun to experiment, Dave, and this came out wonderfully!!!

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chrispoole

7:19PM | Tue, 28 February 2006

Excellent render, a superb oasis, you say this is standard lighting, I have a lot to learn, a lot to learn. THANKS for the zip you haven't done a tutorial on lighting by any chance.

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