Desert Oasis by dburdick
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Description
Vue5 I and PSP for the grasses around the water. I was screwing around with procedural terrains and I came up with this. You're not going to belive it, but the terrain texture is a single procedural material from the standard Vue material library called "Chipped with Paths". I have no idea in the world how it turned out this way. It seems that the procedural terrain I created somehow reacted with the material to form sand in some spots, dirt in others, and the rock-like material you see in the foreground. Go figure. Sorry abut the large size, but I just had to show the texture on this.
If any one wants the terrain for this, you can download a zip file I created for it here:
http://www.skinvue.net/downloads/DesertOasisTerrain.zip
The whole zip file is only 300KB. I put two versions of the terrain inside so that you can see the effect of the key filter inside the procedural function. Basically, if you just play with the shape of the filter, it will adjust the micro-roughness of the terrain.
Comments (26)
Don't you just love it when good things happen accidentally. This looks very realistic - well done!
Excellent work Dave...I like it. As for the the terrain changing. Changing materials on procedurals terrains always has this sort of effect. It has to do with the attributes of the new material, which has different blends -position, altitude, slope, orientation etc.
Thanks Vertecles. I just went back and checked and indeed the material is a mixed material that changes by slope and orientation. I still never would have guessed that the material would map itself like this. Thank goodness for happy accidents.
Amazing work Dave
excellent work,looks most realistic.
Love it. Especially the background areas, which have just the right amount of bright light and dusty haze.
This looks spectacular - probably the best 3D oasis I ever saw ! Terrain looks a little bit strange - but maybe you've discovered some "hidden vue feature" ? It is worth of investigating what happened - on first glance I have impression that you used a mixed function that produces smooth terrain on some parts and highly bumped on other. I have to check if I can get something simmilar. Excellent and Vote!
Excellent work! The vegetation looks very realistic!
I agree with BorisB! Fantastic pic!!!!!!!!!!
Very realistic Dave!An amazing discovery!Excellent!!
Stunning!
This is an absolutely beautifully done scene! Bravo! And thanks for the zip!!
I decided to take out the ditch I had in the original version after my wife Victoria told me it looked like a trail of elephant droppings, or words to that effect. So its all sand now.
Incredible, wonderful, real, fascinating oasis!!! Love me!!!
That is fantistic!
Oh looks very realistic - the groundtexture looks excellent for this - zhx for download
Wow, a very good accident indeed. Textures are awesome. Makes for a very realistic looking scene, great trees placement in the background. I would place this in my top ten most liked renders.
Absolutely excellent! I thought for a minute that a photograph was put in the Vue section - just stunning!
Great terrain & surface - however they were obtained! :-)
Impressive oasis! This procedual terrain is really worth some experiments... Thanks for sharing it. Love the lightning in this render. ~Uwe
Superb scene, Dave, makes me really really thirsty, lol! Very cool what that material did, thanks for sharing it, will take a look at it.
Always fun to experiment, Dave, and this came out wonderfully!!!
Excellent render, a superb oasis, you say this is standard lighting, I have a lot to learn, a lot to learn. THANKS for the zip you haven't done a tutorial on lighting by any chance.
Texture is fantastic - can't believe that texture could look like this! Beautifully done - love the blowing sand effect.
Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!
Beau dert !!! tr rliste