Aug/Sep Lite Entry - Well of the Golden Maiden

[ravells]

really nice erosion lines on those mountains!

[Greason Wolfe]

really nice erosion lines on those mountains!

We can thank Wilbur and a lot of patience for those. Had to swing back and forth between the Precipitation and Incise Flow functions three times each before those fell into place. And, of course, I had to experiment with the Incise Flow settings to get the look I wanted. Oddly enough, it worked better without working in any Basin Fills until the very end, just before I ran the Erosion Cycle to find the rivers.

Speaking of which, I suppose I should get back to work on those. Needed a bit of a break to grab some chow and watch Iron Man for the hundredth time.

GW

[Greason Wolfe]

In needing a break from plotting rivers (such a tedious task) I got to fiddling around in Terragen and hit upon something I should have thought of a long time ago. I do believe (and I may be totally wrong) that I've just taught Terragen how to draw for me. I'm not talking about the pretty, colored, photo-realistic pictures. Nope, I'm talking about something that looks (or at least almost looks) as if it was drawn by hand.

I'm not 100% certain it will work out right, and I'm waiting on a large scale render to see what happens, but, if it does, I'm gonna have to do a jig! Once the render is done, I'll slap it against a pretty background and post it here for the rest of you to judge. My biggest concern is whether or not it will still offer a perception of depth/elevation, and I'll have to work out just how I might better depict snowy peaks, but overall, I'm very very hopeful.

GW

[Jykke]

sounds cool. Can't wait to see it!

[Greason Wolfe]

So close, and yet so far. Much of it works, but some areas just aren't working in that the slopes appear to be pointing in the wrong direction (like the central area leading down to the bottom). I might be able to tweak the process, but it will have to wait for another time. Gotta crawl in bed for now and try to get some sleep before work.

GW

P.S. Here it is for thoughts, suggestions or the sake of curiosity.

[Jykke]

I think it might be just a camera angle issue ?

[Steel General]

Looks pretty good to me, its gotta be useful for something I would think.

[Ascension]

I would be very interested to see how you got that effect. I haven't really drawn anything on paper for 10 years so having the pc do that would be sweet.

[ravells]

It looks like you've thresholded the mountain shadows - nice effect! It may be that the field of view of the camera may be the reason why the angle appears to change from overhead to the near mountains to iso on the further ones....if you make the FOV as low as possbile say 1% ish then that might give you a more consistent mountain angle (if that's what you're after)....looking really cool!

[Jykke]

It actually somewhat reminds me of a test project I had: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=4913
and
http://www.cartographersguild.com/at...1&d=1238022662