Woodland Path by mmundy
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Description
This is a fictitious place modeled and rendered with World Construction Set.
Comments (6)
Halt
Are Those trees really 3D?! Or are they Alphas? Nice work!
mmundy
Thanks! The only 3d geometry in the scene is the water, terrain and boulders. The grass, flowers, cattails and trees are image-mapped flipboards.
yeohann
Well, whether they are alphas or flipboards this is some of the most realistic landscaping I have ever seen. Awesome! May I ask what an image mapped flipboard is? Thanx.
mmundy
There are many different names for it, but essentially you have a rectangular plane with an image assigned to it. There is an opacity map and a diffuse map. The former is a black and white image, white where the tree is and black everywhere else... where the transparency should be. The diffuse map is just a photograph of a tree or other plant. You can't see the rest of the rectangle because of the opacity map. Make sure you check out the WCS website at http://www.3dnworld.com I have a gallery there as well.
ialora
Cool! The B&W thumbnail looked just like a photo. World Builder supposedly does it's vegetation generation the same way. (2d flipboards)
mmundy
Thanks, that is the supreme compliment! World Builder can use flipboards, but it's claim to fame is in it's procedural trees which are actual 3d geometry. I read several years ago that the flipboards were recommended for distant and background trees, with 3d trees in the foreground.