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Here is a small tutorial to do just that with zbrush.

I know it is not directly Vue related, but it is relevant to Vue if you have access to zbrush and want to render such terrains with Vue.

That is nice !

I recently got a wacom and was lookin for n excuse to reinstall zbrush:D thanks man(;

I had a go at importing one of those mothers into Vue and it died :)  Mind you - that was the fully subdivided version at about 900K + verts

It's a great tut - I even bought it from Gnomonology (comes with a bunch of alphas and other goodies)

I was thinking about making it putting it into cionema and reducing polys a bit then trying it with Vue. 

yeah.  I'll probably end up decimating it in Hex (or just export a lower subD heh)

Looks neat. Is this possible with C4D?

I'd have thought so but in ZBrush it's ridiculously easy

Well, if you have Zbrush, Frank, can't you just import the base mesh in Vue, along with a displacement map generated in Zbrush? Those rocks look incredible!

I probably could - I haven't really played with displacement maps much in ZBrush yet but it's on my list of things to get the hang of :)

What memory would a 4096x4096 resolution terrain require if you converted it into a full 3d model?

I don't know off the top of my head but I'd imagine "lots" would be somewhere around the right figure.  Would be in the Gb I'd guess

wow!! that is stunning, I'd love to have something like that to use in Vue

First, it keeps crashing on me and I can't figure out why and second, I can't get it to export displacement maps...some anomalous error right at the end of the export process. Started to tick me off so I figured I'd go round about and I took the alphas that come with the tutorial into Photoshop, made them seamless and then put them through CrazyBump to make displacements.

They work in Vue ok but something was still missing. The base mesh from the tutorial is an ok object but it's a facade and can be used only from the front (or the back if you're in a cave). So back to work in Vue......

Now I have a whole set of procedural displacement materials for rocks that I think do the trick. Image displacement works as well, but I think Vue likes procedural displacement better sometimes. At any rate, I noticed that Vue rocks take displacement well so I fused a bunch together, optimized them and baked them to polygons. Since they are rocks working in concert with each other, I call them rock concert objects and being modular, can be twirled, stacked and put together into any number of cliffs, outcroppings, columns, etc.

Here is a quick render....a single rock concert object duped and rotated several times with one of the displacement materials added. 

Do you think it works?

M

That rocks me Monsoon!  Hope this hits the marketplace soon!

That looks fantastic Monsoon!

Nice! nice! nice!

Looks pretty good I'd say.  Saves me having to make 'em myself :biggrin:

Nice Rocks Mark!