Middle Earth DEM Project

[jezelf]

this is one of the most exciting projects around - love all the updates! Good going guys.

[monks]

Hey jezelf, thanks for the encouragement

Robes, the water does line up with the banks!- those black things you see are the mudflats I put in
..so if I remove that surface layer, the water goes right up to the sides- looks real cool.

I'm roughening up the water a bit now and I'm going to see what this all looks like with TGs default fractal noise re-introduced to the textures. It's looking a bit table-top at the moment.

monks

ps hey guys, if you want to check out some more cool pics of the project check out my MySpace page- the pics galleries:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndid=262625983

Yuo might also want to check out my music as well in the Player- hope yuo like.

[Redrobes]

...the water does line up with the banks!- those black things you see are the mudflats I put in
..so if I remove that surface layer, the water goes right up to the sides- looks real cool.

Ahh - shuffles off

Glad your back on the case again - we will get that final stage 1 this time.

[Ascension]

Holy frejoles! Wish I could learn to wrap my brain around that nodule method TG2 uses. Very nice.

[monks]

Hey Ascension- I learned via World Machine. I took to that quite well...TG is a bit different again but I'm getting there.

What do you think of the river valley texturing on the opposite bank?- do you think it looks realistic? This is another surface layer mixed via the fractal breakup. I'm goin to double the number of texture layers but I want to improve it, not just add more.
The water has better reflectivity I think. The water level is too low though- if I raise it, it will look better, and it will also obviate the need for the mud flats...so Robes you can shuffle back in lol

I've still got a nice river mask in hand as well- should be able to improve those river valleys...and of course there's the plant populations //drool

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...2/render09.png

[monks]

ok, the river banks east and west are not at the same heights. In order for the river to be perfect I'd have to go back and alter the western bank- get rid of those cliffs. That's not difficult at all but it is worth it for the purpose of these renders..?
So onto the surfacing...

monks

[Redrobes]

...so Robes you can shuffle back in lol

Sure - never really left

[monks]

improved half of the surfaces here-

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...2/render11.bmp

now onto the mountain.
I'd like to throw in some displacements as well to the terrain.

running off a render now of Mindol....

monks

[monks]

hmm, still needs a lot of work. Promising tho...

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...2/render13.png

I think displacements will help as well as tree cover in the foreground running up the lower slopes.
First tho, getting more variation into the surfaces on the mt.

monks

[monks]

here's one at slightly higher detail settings:

I think the base of the mountain needs a lot of work

http://www.skindustry.net/medem/file...2/render14.png


monks