I recently found the program called Terragen, and had been messing around to create a fairly decent picture of a random piece of Zalanthas.
I think, by room descriptions, Im getting closer, but the sky might be the most off thing. Here is the current picture Ive been using.
http://free.hostdepartment.com/j/jenred/landscape.html
all comments appreciated.
Not too shabby... Where'd you find it and whats it like?
Creeper
Wow!
DrunkenSalarr, who thinks at least it's not a "..." response.
Pretty snazzy!! Is it just a landscape program, or can you add architecture or figures?
A picture of Whira's Tower would be pretty wicked through that, I think.
http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
and thanks for the comments.
ill try to do some scrub plains ones.
and you cant add things through the program itself, but you can save as a bitmap and then draw in whatever you want really.
No offense Arm players but I like Jenreds sky WAY better.
I like a yellow sky tons more than a red one.
Beautiful Jenred, with a capital "B"
Very nice render, Jenred.
Y'know.. I've had Terragen on this computer for a pretty long time; before I started playing Arm. It never even crossed my mind to use the program to render Zalanthan landscapes. Going to have to try to make some of my own now. :)
Here's my first attempt at some Zalanthan scrublands. A bit too much green stuff, I think; going to have to tweak that more.
http://users.rcn.com/haiwolfe/photos/scrublands.jpg
Added what I think is a better render of a canyon. Maybe in the Table lands, but to me it has the canyon of waste feel.
http://free.hostdepartment.com/j/jenred/landscape.html
comments wanted as always
Awsome canyon, I love it!
Master Z I belive you have a perfect tool to create Baobab backgrounds now 8)
Wow, I love the canyon! Beautiful lighting and texture. I almost feel like I'm standing right there.
Wow, I love that canyon.
Inspired me to download it and play around a little.
I have to agree, that canyon is really spectacular. :D
HaiWolfe, I like the scrub. Yeah, probably a little less green, and more brown.. well, tangles of scrub. Probably a bit flatter too. That's just me though.
Since people liked the canyon ones I did a few more since they were a bit easier. Ill try to do some desert things if I can work out a sand look.
http://free.hostdepartment.com/j/jenred/landscape.html
enjoy.
Sweet. I set that last picture as my wallpaper.
Got a question, Jenred. How are you setting it to get the sky that color? Seems that no matter what I do, I get a horizontal gradient going from dark brown to yellow.
took awhile to figure out, i did the direct sunlight in a reddish color, then in the next tab over you can do tri-colored lighting, setting the downward light, ambient, and reverse lighting. that did alot of it.
then in the atmosphere fiddle with the haze effects, and change the constant blue... all together came out to the right effect.
Anyone interested... added some scrub... at least a try at scrub.
here is the link again
http://free.hostdepartment.com/j/jenred/landscape.html
http://vijonshinka.5u.com/wall.jpg
May have to copy paste that or something. Not sure. But thats me being bored.
Creeper
QuoteMaster Z I belive you have a perfect tool to create Baobab backgrounds now
That is what I use already :/ I just don't put as much effort into it.
And its BaoBob.
Thanks for the tips, Jenred.
Here's my second scrublands render, created with a specific location in mind.
http://users.rcn.com/haiwolfe/photos/scrubshelf.jpg
http://vijonshinka.5u.com/TGSunSet.jpg
Not much of a sun set but I got bored.
Creeper
oo, very sunsetacular
A few first attempts:
Salt Flats, sandstorm in the distance (http://www.geocities.com/crymerci/saltflats.jpg)
Badlands (http://www.geocities.com/crymerci/badlands.jpg)
Rocky Slope (http://www.geocities.com/crymerci/redrock.jpg)
Smooth dunes (http://www.geocities.com/crymerci/orangedunes.jpg)
Red desert (http://www.geocities.com/crymerci/reddunes.jpg)
Edit: changed the filetypes to jpegs to make them smaller and added a few.
Cool. I like what you did with the clouds... look more like dust swirling in the air. Really neat sky in the third picture.
Wow. These are all REALLY good. The worst ones are 10 times better then my best ones :P
Why doesn't someone do Gol Krathu, The Red Desert, Sea of Eternal dust.....
Hey just because mine are better then yours doesn't mean you have to call them the worst! It's the computers fault not mine.
I'll do something else when I get bored... Maybe try a island in silt. The fog and sand looking stuff works ALOT better when you have water stuff.
Creeper
i keep getting a stupid non-working geo-cities link.... :(
Yeah, geocities is gay and I think think it doesnt like links. You have to type in the adress manually... I think thats the word...
Or you can just click on the link and then hit enter in the address bar.`
Quote from: "John"Or you can just click on the link and then hit enter in the address bar.`
:shock: I knew there was an easier way.
Thanks John
No matter what I do I get a faulty geocities link... Oh well. I don't think my browser likes bitmaps either for some reason.
http://vijonshinka.5u.com/TGIsland.jpg
I tried something else... But thats all I got...
Creeper
Oh yeah, I could copy and paste the links in but then it just takes 1,000,000 years to load because Terragen bitmaps are gigantic, and they dont compute with my little dial-up.
Oh well... um maybe Ill see them later.
I saved them as jpegs instead and edited the links, so they should a) load easier and b) suck up my free bandwidth slower. :wink: