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#1

i wrote a tutorial today on weird looking landscapes , I put a lot of images in it and I hope newbies can understand it. For experienced users , you’ll probably skip a lot of steps.
I hope someone can use this , thx for looking :slight_smile:

Weird looking landscapes tutorial

#2

Well these landscapes of yours look really good, I’ll read this one ASAP ;). Thanks!

#3

oh yeah , if any images don’t work , please let me know. uploading with a 56k modem doesnt always go without problems :stuck_out_tongue:

#4

Thanks alot, this look very interesting. :slight_smile: :+1:

#5

Thanks for your tutoria. I found some good hints!

#6

I should add , that I forgot something because I had lunch in between writing the tutorial.
I forgot to bake the background layer , before snapshotting the objects onto the canvas , therefore there is a dropshadow on the sky which shouldnt be there in the first place , sorry about that. :slight_smile:

#7

Oh this is very good!, I never thought about using texture make alpha to inflate rock structure. This ought to save alot of time.

Thanks!.

#8

actually , Ken B used it to make a tree look realistic a while ago. it’s a fast way to create complex looking lanscapes ,rocks , …

I would appreciate it if anyone who read the tutorial could also tell me where I made mistakes in english .

And another tip , try to render your object with the toonshader , you can get Super Mario Bro’s Landscapes like that. :slight_smile:

<font color="#949494" size=“1”> November 26, 2002 Message edited by: The Namek </font>

#9

Tried it very interesting. I will post something in the future! Thanks for sharing.

#10

2 other abstract thingies , same technique.
1 Looks a bit like Lava and the other one has an organ-like shape in it :stuck_out_tongue:

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#12

That lava image is cool :+1: :+1:, the intestin’ish thing on the second looks very convincing too ;).

#13

This is a variation of Namek’s image:

#14

And this is another with the same technique:

#15

It is a very good technique for making a rocky ground. I did play with this a while back, using a shot of clouds as the texture-turned-to-alpha inflator.
I particularly like the last image you posted Namek. Very intriguing.
In the following image the ground, and stumpy thingy was done with the same sort of approach.

#16

Some of these are similar to those fascinating rock stratas portray in medieval paintings.Very nice and a pleasure to read about your technique. Would love to see some of these rock formations also rendered in Vue d’Esprit or even Bryce. :+1:

#17

Boozy floozie , I never tried rendering it in bryce or vue. Maybe someone could try it , since I don’t have Vue. I do have Bryce , so I’ll try it out when I get home.

Filament9 and moonwalker , great images , thx for trying it out.

<font color="#949494" size=“1”> November 27, 2002 Message edited by: The Namek </font>

#18

I finally got some time to try this out a little in a quick test.

This is great for producing natural lines which is very hard to do by hand IMO. In Photoshop I always used a picture of something natural to displace the lines I drew, this does pretty much the same thing. Its usually easy to spot the difference between a line drawn by hand and a line in nature. Hopefully I’ll have time to dive deeper into this, great stuff The Namek
:+1: :+1: :+1:.

<font color="#949494" size=“1”> November 27, 2002 Message edited by: Karasuando </font>

#19

Great Tutorial Namek, I’m going to give this a try asap, looks like a interesting technique for sure!

Thanks buddy :slight_smile:

  • Shaun
#20

Interesting tutorial, Namek :+1: :+1:
The images are very nice :+1: :+1: :+1:

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