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Hi!
Thanks for looking in... you might want to click the full size view on this one. I'm just sayin'....
I think these landscape images now officially qualify as a 'series.'
I countinue to be astounded at the capabilites of Vue as a landscape generator. I know, "duh that's what it's for, silly!" But still, one can get some gorgeous terrain out of this software.
Vue8i render - two procedural terrain objects. I'm using the terrain fractal combined with the new recursion filter for a little bit of erosive layering. These are entirely precedual - no sculpting, just working with the values of the terrain fractal function.
Rock materials are from Chipp Walter's excellent Terra Pak, snow is a tweaked version of the Vue 8 snow material layer. These were setup as a layered material with the snow lying on the flat areas adn a little bit of orientation bias.
There are two meta cloud objects in here as well, pretty much standard, but with the ambiance tuned all the way down.
Lighting atmosphere and terrain fractal techniques inspired by material from the Quadspinner tutorials available at Cornucopia 3D, but at this point I've digested them and am doing my own thing with the ideas presented. Still, these tutorials are recommended highly.
The image was rendered at 1920x720 with the quality on the global radiosity lighting and atmospherics cranked and the render quality at 'broadcast.' Render time was 16 hours.
I did a little bit of a levels adjustment in Photoshop and added the title and copyright information in.
As always; many, many thanks to those who take the time to offer critique or drop a quick comment, I read and appreciate them all.
Comments (24)
FrankT
Like it - those terrain fractals can make some amazing looking scenes. I never get tired of playing with the settings
Believable3D
Beautiful.
jclP
tres beau terrain
anitalee
Beautiful
Traligill
fine work!
A.C.Wolfe
Looks awesome!!
arcas
Holy cow, man, that's stunning!
geirla
Fantastic detail in that terrain. Very realistic indeed!
dragonmuse
Amazing work. I had to check to see whether or not it was a photo.
dburdick
Jawdropping work. The details on this are exquisite!
ThomasMacCallum
A beautiful landscape
bigbraader
Impressive terrain work.
dshield
Wonderful stuff, Michael. D
PhilW
You're right - Vue is capable of stunning landscapes and you have produced a breathtaking example here - superb realism, wonderful work!
kftate
Very beautiful! Fantastic work!!
Seaview123
Fantastic landscape! I know folks think that you just turn on Vue and you get a good looking landscape, but I know that you have to put in some work to come up with the quality that you're turning out in your images. Really nice job!
wybob
Exceptional quality and workmanship. Beautifully done.
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent image!
Tholian
Gives me the shivers just looking at it. Very photo-realistic effects that you have achieved here. The technical achievements and the very artistic results are almost beyond words.
Alex_Antonov
Remarkable work!
bebetoblu
stunning landscape!
Tugpsx
Ok Mike! where did you shoot the pic? All kidding aside this is awesome, the detail is great even the low level clouds and snow banks makes this look very realistic.
ontar1
Fantastic scene, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rutra
Full view is a must. Very realistic indeed.