Stream Bed

I made a stream bed from your other filter that I hope to use in that pic. You have an area in the settings where it begins to make the rocks look wet and that was really nice. That's what made me think of using it for a stream.

You can see the wet areas here. I added a layer of my water over this and it looked really good. I didn't save that as it was done in FF and doesn't give as good an effect as in Bryce.

As for the one you have there...any chance for some sand and gravel in between the larger rocks? Is that even possible?

i can see a little bit of wet in that first one, but i think that one is one that is going to lend itself to the 'eye of the beholder' a bit more than the others. i see a very light dusting of snow, that maybe is melting and therefore a bit wet.

and i think your second one here looks good. is that water over the snow covered land filter?

ok, here's a bit of an update. i've put a little surface reflection/ripple on the thing. it's still quite rough, but shows sort of where i'm headed.

no sand or anything else yet.

That's pretty neat looking!

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That's just the water that I want to use over top of the rocks

. ah, ok. well, i still like it

object file for your buck? as in stag, male deer? for the scenery pictures? on the snow covered filter, if you're using that, remember, you can use the 'size' slider to scale the entire scene if you need to. i was even thinking of how to import your animals into FF as an imported image. if you did them as a cutout, with all the background erased to a transparency, you could add an image component to the snow covered filter and add in a blend component near the end of the filter and put the image component on the foreground node of the blen and the rest of the filter on the background node and your stag/buch/animal would show over the scenery. that could be kind of cool. it wouldnt be 3d like in bryce or poser, but still kinda cool

and thanks, ahimsa. thanks, carl i like this one too. hopefully, i can get it refined more and maybe add some sand and stuff to it.

ah, good. yeah, the first one is much cleaner at the moment. the surface reflection/ripple is still rough. well, the other is still rough too, but you know what i mean

the first one was also just to be rocks under the surface level, but the second i was trying to get some of the rocks above surface, with a ripple effect against them, and some below. what i ended up with was more a surface relection, but you can see some of what i was after... if you look close... and use your imagination... and cross your eyes a bit... and...

in some ways, i know that last image is worse than the first, but in other ways, it's an improvement. with all the new controls i added i now have to tame them a bit.

hmmm, not sure why i'd use a difference blend here. seems backwards to me, not that that invalidates it. i just normally do this type of filter as overlays, like the waterfall one. each aspect/element is on a leg and i simply blend each leg in when and where it's appropriate.

lol...oh, you said 'maybe for another filter'. not this one then? you're thinking down the road already. i'm still trying to figure out this one yeah, there's a ton of possibilities in 'noise'. i'm using one 'stones' here on this one and about 6 to 8 perlins on the various legs and plugged in at mostly, but not always, normal nodes. i even have a remnant of the snow covered land in here.

hehe, ahimsa, yeah, i know. i did check the filter again and it's only about 4 perlins. just seemed like 8

That would make a nice rock wall area near a waterfall.

2nd to last one looking REALLY good!!!

The noise looks like thresholded stretched perlin.....any way to take it out??? The "wetness" is really starting to come thru nicely on that 2nd to last one....and I agree.....seems like the noise is getting in the way......

hehe, still dancing all around this one. fix one thing and six more things show up. i've rearranged some lines and deleted a few things and re-mapped some others. still not there, but it's fun trying

well, take a stick and poke yer eye out... no chaffs but yes, lots of perlins. got to get rid of at least one. that vertical black line stuff has to go... an experiment gone wrong. and yes on the stones. that's the central component here.

and nah, dont think i need to map cracks. i've already got a roughness that beats them up pretty well. though, the roughness is in the perlin, so, yeah.

i dont really like this last version that much. and i'm still not getting what i really wanted with this one. i may have to strip it down even further. i've already taken out the 'sand' that ahimsa wanted. that will have to come later. it's the rock to water aspect that's not right yet. i can make nice rock. i can make nice water, but when i put the two together it kinda sucks. so, i'll get out my hammer and do some more

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Kraellin wrote: well, take a stick and poke yer eye out

LOL....

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Kraellin wrote: i can make nice rock. i can make nice water, but when i put the two together it kinda sucks.

Getting a little harsh on yourself, eh???

I think it's very interesting to see the results as you "hammer" it out

well, i'm putting away the hammer for tonight. gonna go play with the monster for a while. very frustrated with this one at the moment. gonna walk away and come back later.

yes, manon, i really like what you did with it