Estuary by paul_gormley
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Description
Venturing out into nodes with this simple and only partially there render using the fake stone shader.
Quite a learning path, though Terragen tries its best to 'help' the uninitiated.
The Planetside forum is very helpful too, but slightly pitched at a level above users who have only played with it for a few weeks.
The low res version of this took 15mins to render.
This version took 4.5 hours on my machine, see below, and it is only a couple of grades above the standard micropoly detail setting of 0.5 and anti-aliasing of 3.
The realism, although lacking 'proper wet stones', and 'associated reflections' looks promising however and I was fortunate enough to make a lucky mistake with a water shader and so not have to plonk in a lake.
The stones use a couple of rock textures made in FilerForge.
Next step is to place in a Poser figure and see how this renders, though early indications are T4 is as unkind to skin textures as Vue 11 was, so the trick will be to see if you can micromanage the object textures to better suit the T render engine. It would be amazing if you can, but I've seen few skin close-ups in T4 and its own blurb professes it to be "not ideal" for rendering alien objects...
We shall see however.
Platform:
MacBookAir6,2 i7, 2core 1processor, 8GBram
Comments (19)
Sylverdali
very beautiful work
Richardphotos
I use to fool around with Terragen and enjoyed it. your render is far ahead of anything I did
starship64
This is really amazing.
jenay
very cool stone textures and the wate looks great :)
Kordouane
Utterly realistic
gaius
I'm speechless ! it's...it's...wow !!! I gave Terragen a try some years ago but, cause there is a but ! days are not long enough to use Poser, Daz Studio, Terragen, why not Blender ?
hashdoc
the stones lood great!
rbowen
Beautiful work!
MagikUnicorn
B E A U T Y
wscottart
Really nice
jmattatall
Makes me want to give it a try. Now, were do I even start
iborg64
This is very impressive the sky and clouds in particular show a high degree of realism. From the thumbnail it made me think it was a photo excellent quality work
bucyjoe
wow great
Jean_C
Superb realistic landscape, great work!
anitalee
Awesome
ikke.evc
Nicely done.
prutzworks
xlt work!
pixeluna
What an amazing image and what I thought of as a photo. It is great for scifi renders with the main character gazing at her surroundings as an unconquered soil.
UteBigSmile
Fantastic work!