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Quiet Shore

Quiet Shore
Description:	This is another one of my sky creations. This should come as no surprise but I am good with sky and atmospheric style scenery, but horrible with landscaping terrain. I will share my secret of skies if someone helps me with landscaping. Please assist.
Added by:	Valor
Keywords:	Skies, Clouds, Landscapes, Valor
Date:	06.14.2004 03:22
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Downloads:	117
Rating:	3.50 (2 Vote(s))
File size:	245.7 KB

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Nightst4r
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Join Date: 12.11.2003
Comments: 451

wow

Very impressive sky indeed!

06.14.2004 03:23

davidbrinnen
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Join Date: 01.03.2004
Comments: 2224

Landscapes

Another great sky there, but for some reason it's angle (?) does not seem to be compatable with the water - either that or it looks like the water stops short of the horizon? Is that a clue as to how it was done? As for landscapes, I usually use Mordor, start with low res until I find one I like, lock of the fractal generator by unticking the three options near the bottom, scale up and then regenerate the same fractal. From the top down view I zoom back 5x and scale the landscape up to that size - that way I have set a standart for the materials I intend to apply. Materials I usually choose the vertical texture seperately from the horizontal and use the C channel to control the slope of each (download the bluebellwoods material as an example of my approach) in fact you could use that as a starting point and interchange the A and B textures for any one of the presets (use the Alt key and click on the name of the texture to preview a range - so much more helpful than a list of names) should you so desire... Any questions, fire away. But that essentally is an overview of how I go about producing landscapes.

06.14.2004 12:55

Valor
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Join Date: 05.01.2004
Comments: 39

This sky should look familar.

This is actually one of your skies that you posted on your website Daid. This sky was done by using your sky preset. I took your sky preset, and altered it a little. Then I rotated the trackball so the camera faces the sky. I saved the bryce image as a jpeg then apply the jpeg to the same technique as I posted in nice sky.

You may ask why not just merge the image. Well the reason is very simple. It is because the shadow of the landscape, for instance a mountain will cast a shadow on the sky, because its not actully a sky its a terrain with a sky material.

P.S. These technique's are very new to me as well. I look forward to seeing what these techniques will do in the hands of others.

06.14.2004 18:43

davidbrinnen
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Join Date: 01.03.2004
Comments: 2224

Lol!

You got me there, I'm so busy most of the time I can't remember what I have and have not done. Let me know how you get on with the landscapes, I rather imagined you'd want to ask more questions. Cool technique, but I think it's going to be hard work getting things just right.

06.14.2004 21:02

Valor
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Join Date: 05.01.2004
Comments: 39

Yeah its pretty hard to Get right

I've been trying to get things just rght with a previous landscape I have work with, but the scene always wants to cast shadows on the sky terrain in the baackground so I figured the only way to prevent this is in Photoshop. Its very hard to do, and get it right. I suppose if your entering a iimage for a contest you would want that little extra umpf to it, but otherwise just alot of tweaking of sky presets and camera angles would do just fine.

I have alot of questions about landscapes and I hope that you would continue to be so gracious as to answer them.

Oh yes I will also post my sky materials that I used for this sky on the website. They should be posted by tommorrow. Have fun with them.

P.S. I am having continuously larger rendering times with many of my images. Of course my renders are no where as near as complex as other people's works on this website. What I am trying to get at is that if anyone would like help rendering something I would be more than willing to help with Bryce Lighting just email me. I have high speed so internet connection should not be a problem. Cya later.

06.14.2004 22:13

Titus88
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Join Date: 05.04.2004
Comments: 24

cool

Nice, very nice.;-)

06.17.2004 19:09

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