Experiment by gerberc
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Description
Rainy Sunday experiment to evaluate how much "abuse" of Poser is possible. First step was to convert an old Terragen classic terrain. The original CanyonShores terrain has a resolution of 2049x2049 and weighs 8 MB, the resulting obj about 350 MB! Loaded it into Poser and applied a Terradome 2 desert material. The result was much nicer than expected so I quickly added a spaceship with some procedural metal materials and inserted a quick cloud layer with Photoshop (unfortunately I forgot where I have those items from). Not really an efficient way to create this kind of image but obviously Terragen terrains can be used with Poser :)
Comments (3)
perpetualrevision
Cool! Those TD2 materials work well with a variety of terrains, since they adjust to highs, lows, flat areas, etc. Here they make the Terragen terrain look very otherworldly and a little disorienting, as I can't quite tell what what camera angle we're looking through. Based on what I see of the spaceship, I feel like I should be seeing horizon and sky near the top, but it's more land, so that adds to the trippy "not this world" feeling! Given that I've been craving peanut butter and chocolate lately, the terrain also reminds me of the top of a pie :-)
One thing that doesn't seem possible in Poser is having terrains that extend WAY into the far distance, the way you can do with apps like Vue or Terragen (or POV Ray, presumably). But for terrains a bit closer to the camera, you've got lots of options! You can also use Poser's morph brush to enhance terrain shapes, although it's more likely to make soft shapes rather than sharp craggy shapes.
gerberc
Thank you very much! The camera is positioned above the terrain looking down at an angle. The terrain covers the whole visible area. I think what makes the thing confusing are the dark areas of the terrain material interfering with the shadows of the mountains (sunlight shines from down left to up right). It’s hard to differentiate up an down. And yes, it looks a bit like coupe denmark (vanilla ice with hot chocolate) :))
JoeJarrah
Marvellous. Excellent work pushing the envelope. The terrain is very convincing and the pov makes for an eye-catching composition
gerberc
Thank you very much!