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Title: Rock Garden
Post by: badvok on April 20, 2012, 06:03:57 PM
Hi,

I'm new to Terragen and I've been going through the tutorials, reading what I can and generally playing around. I recently went through Neuspadrin's Intro to the Fake Stones Shader, which has taught me loads about how to chain various shaders and functions together.

While nowhere near as good as most of the renders posted on this forum, it's the first thing I've really been pleased with so I thought I would share it and introduce myself at the same time :)
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Badvok
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: MGebhart on April 20, 2012, 06:45:42 PM
Dang nice render for your first post. Well done.
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Kadri on April 20, 2012, 07:09:09 PM

Nice start  :)
Welcome Badvok!
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: masonspappy on April 20, 2012, 09:26:49 PM
Well, if that's how good you can do on your first post then I really want to keep an eye on your stuff, as I imagine it will be quite good! :)
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Dune on April 21, 2012, 05:09:21 AM
Welcome, and yes, nice first render. But beware of the spikes in the right hand rock. If you're into rocks, check out the forum for tgd's, there's plenty of interesting stuff around to learn from.
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Henry Blewer on April 21, 2012, 09:22:13 AM
Very nice first post. The rock face can be smoothed by a surface layer. The right tab control this in the surface layers settings window. Check the box and try 0.2
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: ares2101 on April 21, 2012, 03:24:43 PM
Don't sell yourself short, that is very nice.
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: badvok on April 22, 2012, 08:47:41 AM
Thanks everyone :) I agree that the rocks on the right and the foreground don't look right. I've spent most of this weekend trying to fiddle around with them, but I just can't get them looking right.

I think I've now got myself in a state where I have too many shaders lying around and I'm confused about what they're all doing! So I'm going to strip the whole scene back and start on the rocks again, I think.

Still, I've now learned the importance of the "Save Incremental" option. Would have saved a lot of time if I'd learned that lesson earlier...:P

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Badvok
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Dune on April 22, 2012, 10:34:25 AM
It is always good to try out parts of a terrain (such as rocks) separately and look at them closely. If they turn out nice, you can save all nodes as a (appropriately named) clip file (.tgc) for later insertion in a terrain.
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: badvok on April 22, 2012, 02:50:05 PM
Thanks for the tips. Especially about saving clip files; I didn't know that was possible. So I've been playing around with the rocks in a neutral scene and then reimported them back. They could still do with some work, but I think they're a lot better than they were.

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Badvok
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Henry Blewer on April 26, 2012, 08:40:08 PM
These rocks are much better. If you would like more stratified rocks, decrease the noise. You can also stretch the noise along the x and z axis.
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: choronr on April 27, 2012, 01:55:09 AM
You've got a good thing going here. You might consider experimenting with changing the sun's position to effect a better atmospheric look. It appears the sun is on your back. Try moving the sun to the upper right corner of the scene. This might give you an improved image.
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Simius Strabus on April 29, 2012, 07:08:39 AM
Mighty good job :-)
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: badvok on April 30, 2012, 07:07:37 AM
Thanks :) I'm definitely going to have a go at the rocks again and play around with the lighting. Just as soon as work lets me :(

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Badvok
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: badvok on May 05, 2012, 03:04:12 PM
I think I'm mostly happy with the rocks now. I've kept the light bright, as the general idea for this scene was bright light and flowers :)

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Badvok
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Dune on May 06, 2012, 02:50:49 AM
Nice result!
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: Simius Strabus on May 06, 2012, 05:53:25 AM
Nicely done!
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: inkydigit on May 07, 2012, 10:27:58 AM
great job, well done!
:)
Title: Re: Rock Garden
Post by: TheBadger on May 08, 2012, 12:15:25 AM
nice improvements