Peaks Redux by theSea
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Hi, thanks for having a look. More time spent doing Vue landscaping while I ought to be working on other things... this is just addicitve now.
Procedural terrain using the Peaks function, the terrain fractal and the strata filter with various levels of blending in the function editor. This is a technique I learned from watching the AsileFX "What's new in Vue8" tutorial series. Yes I'm a tutorial junkie now too...
One spectral cloud layer and a metacloud in the foreground. Rock materials are from Chipp Walters "TerraPak" and snow is a standard Vue Material. I love tweaking material layers to get an interesting and realistic look. You can see some striations where the snow is sitting that are slanted because of the way that the strata function was angled.
Lighting is global radiosity - so most of the terrain lighting is bounced light. It's really neat how GR is able to give realistic indirect lighting and a nice contrast between sunlight and shadow.
Cranked lighting and atmospheric quality settings to +4 and rendered using the 'final' settings with the anti-aliasing changed to 'soft' to smooth out any remaining cloud noise.
Render time was 16 hours at 1920x720. Most of that was rendering the metacloud in the front :)
As always thanks for your comments and constructive critique. Have a great day!
Comments (16)
Tholian
Scary how real that looks. Wow.
buju93
Magnifique paysage,très beau travail.
mmax.ch
Amazingly beautiful work my friend, excellent done.
anitalee
Wonderful work
zbyszek30
rendering excellent, fantastic!!!
necrophage
beautiful landscape!
Seaview123
This is really nice looking work, and thanks for explaining the new bells and whistles available in Vue 8. This gives me something to put on my X-mas wish list.
kftate
Very beautiful image and excellent work!!
Tugpsx
These new series are awesome. Keep up the excellent work. Added to mini tutorials.
DanB-Creations
Absolutely fantastic work my friend.
faroutsider
Excellent render. Your mini tutorials are very informative.
PhilW
Very realistic - and beautiful!
jclP
beau terrain
bebetoblu
wonderful work !
JCD
The light and terrain detail is killer!
ontar1
Fantastic landscape, love thye snow and clouds, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!