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Carrara 3 has the ability to make decent terrains, features, lakes and trees
which can be combined with a sky, volumetric clouds and sky and global
illumination rendering to create realistic landscapes. I helped write the
landscape chapter for the upcoming Carrara 3 Handbook and, depending on how it
has been edited, should take you through some tricks for getting good
landscapes out of Carrara 3.
Terrains: the terrain editor has its limitations but works much like the Bryce
terrain generator and so Bryce tutorials can be helpful. A separate photoeditor
is
useful for manipulating the height maps used to make the terrains. The new
Ground Control plugin from Eric Winemiller (Digital Carvers Guild) looks good I
just haven't had time to try it out. Anything Grooves can also be used to make
terrains.
Simple planes with a wave shader are good for large flat bodies of water and
Anything Grooves and the Vertex of Spline modelers can be used for making
water with depth.
Rocks and Houses and other features of course can be modelled in Carrara in the
spline or vertex modellers.
Carrara 3 includes a tree/plant generator. Due to the complexity of the models
they are processor intensive. Distant Trees can also be faked with noisy
terrains or Anything Grows strands or tip objects.
Carrara includes an Atmosphere generator. Layering several cloud layers can
give you a good approximation of volumetric clouds. Volumetric clouds are
included but they do not interact with scene lighting, are tricky to get right
and are processor intensive. That said, they work well for special requirements
.
The texture tools in Carrara 3 include a new environment shader which makes it
easier to shade terrains and other objects by height, slope and orientation.
Good for snow, dust, moss, tree lines etc.
The renderer includes a fast sky light option (which can use an atmosphere,
image or HDRI image as a light source for the scene) and a much more
intensive indirect lighting option (global illumination).
here is a test I did and later refined http://www3.telus.net/pem/MountainTest
.jpg
You can certainly do it all in Carrara 3.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:55:02 -0500, Danny King wrote:
>Not sure if I should ask this here or not, but will take a chance.
>I am looking for a program to make 3D landscapes.
>It also must be able to save in wrl format.
>I am using Cararra to make a house and was trying to find something else to
>make the hills, valleys, lakes, rocks and trees.
>Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. :)
>
>Thank you for your time
>Danny
>
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