 | | | Re: WIp 's update | Re: WIp 's update 2005-04-25 - By pmiinalainen
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I don't know how she did it, but I've done similar things by hand
painting the river area in exported terrain map. Then i drew another
map based on that where the even water areas had flat colors and
running areas had a gradient sliding from shade to another.
Then i added some noise for bumpiness. Other areas were set to black.
I then loaded the hand-painted version back into copy of original.
Created another copy and loaded the "river" map. I adjusted the
heights and z-scaling so that the two terrains matched nicely.
Then i converted the river terrain into vertex model and removed the
extra parts.
Then i used the orignal maps to create maps for mixing various
textures and shader channels. By creating the hand painted maps you
get more detailed control over the features of the terrains and
associated textures. Procedural are nice for creating the initial
landscapes and adding lots of fine details. The same applies for
textures. The problem is that you can't get features absolutely placed
with using just procedural shaders and terrains.
Other landscaping "musts"
-get inagonis plugins replica and swap
-create rocks easily by drawing uneven, closed polyline shapes in
vertex modeler and then apply 'Organic' command.
-get lots of memory for your computer. And if you plan to use carrara
trees around your landscape, get some more :-)
petteri
--- In Carrara@(protected), "hdaggers2000" <hdaggers@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Marjorie-- I'm wondering how you made the waterfalls in the first
place. You mentioned
> duplicating the tarrain and then inverting it.... This conjures a
mental picture that doesn't
> seem to be anything like what you've achieved. When you have some
time could you
> explain that a little further?
>
> Thanks! This list is so chatty recently. It's very friendly!
> holly
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