3D clouds are really awesome, surface mapping excellent (rocks texture a bit bright but maybe calcareous), terrain and pov are great... maybe water color could be different, and without this double white shoreline ? Anyway a really excellent photorealistic render !

I like the bumpiness you have on the landscape and, as you have found out; the more layers the more real it can be, especially with the image overlays. You can always take your 513 WM terrain into Terragen and enlarge it from the Size window. Very good image.

Agree with hillrunner...very nice work...excellent!!

Excellent First try! Clouds are excellent! Overlays can be a real pain I have found. LOL You can produce somewhat realistic rock with layers and child layers. I start from the ground up LOL pardon the Pun! Rock layers with child detail layers, dirt with topsoil child layer and then grasses with different shades and roughness. Underwater and shoreline I save until last. Just a thought...maybe try without overlays unless using strata or pebble overlays like Markal does. Excellent work Friend!

I really like your clouds, they are really fantistic, like Buzzzzz said, overlays can be difficult for realism (I don't know how Golog does it so well) but I always find that they are usually too bright for the best realism. Great first try at this, it's really beautiful, and I love your greens

Excellent render, the sky is one of the most realistic 3D cloudscapes I've seen. The surface work is very convincing and I think you achieved your goal with room to spare. The only thing that doesn't really fit is the surf - where does it come from on a small lake? ;-)

don't really think this is photorealistic - it is very well executed - but i wouldn't mistake it for a photo - all the realistic terragen pics i have seen so far have been low land lit, concentrating on clouds or water. if you know of any that don't fit this - please email me a link. anyways - i love your compo - i always tend to err on the side of the slightly fantastical:o)

Great job! The clouds are fantastic. I agree with Rids about the surf. I just doesn't seem like the water is rough enough for it. Overall an amazing image

XLT sky, textures and water!beautiful pic !bravo

This is more than a trial .... it is an accomplishment ! The terrain is amazingly realistic and the ligthing and atmo perfect ! the clouds ... well...have never seen such beautiful clouds in Terragen (without postwork)!!! You must have been tweaking settings for days (weeks???) !!! Anyway this is one is a definite VOTE ! Congratulations on an outstanding work of art !

Thats one of the best pictures I ever seen! Great terrain, great Surface ..... exellent!

Superb! I like it a lot!

i think it looks very real! well done!

Very realistic scene, agree with Hillrunner for water and shorline ;)

Excellent work !!

this is most beautiful work, superb clouds

Now, when I look again on this beautiful image, I can say an accurate opinion: except the left side of water and the too many surfs for a little lake, all are very realistical! I like very, very much the surfaces! I prefer the 2D clouds for realistic scenes, but your 3D clouds are excellent too! Bravo!

another exceptional image from that mind of yours.

You created again an excellent image. I have nothong to add to the already said, but the clouds are absolutely awesome. A great job victor!

die arbeit mit den layern hat sich gelohnt. respekt ! das wasser sieht sehr lecker aus !!!

I totally agree with Paul...you have proven that one can produce excellent 3D clouds w/TG and some patience. This is your 'best work'! This is a keeper!!

(Excellent). Fantastic composition.

The amount of surface layers has really paid off - each element of the landscape looks real!! The colours are just delicious and highly believable. The rock appears to be a little too white but I know it exists and a scene such as this is quite possible in nature. However if you're going for realism I'd dull it down a bit and hope you don't lose the WOW factor. You ever see a scene in nature and think well "there's too much light there" or the rocks are the wrong colour" or "I wouldn't have done it like that" LOL

damn dude this is excellent! it looks like a photo as opposed to a cg image. the texturing, lighting and sky look amazing! very nice work V!!!

Nice pov and water; truly excellent surface!

Very beautiful image!!! Excellent work!!!

That grass with the burnt out looking spots looks good. The cloud looks good too. Nice one for a first attempt at the hardest goal to achieve.

For a first try, it's very good !!

The grass surface and sky are very realistic.

I would say you achieved your goal admirably. I love the rocky appearance of your terrain. The clouds are outstanding!