The secret plan -- for eyes only

Well, that warning should be enough to keep this thread safe enough from early exposure.

It even requires a secret password, that only you know, to post on this thread.

For here comes the supersecret "3D Landscape" filter WIP.

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What all does it take to make a 3D landscape?

A number of the elements exist in separate filters and others will have to be created newly. There are skies, clouds, water, the sun, even flat land in perspective that have been done in some form or another.

But there is at least one missing element of the plan: Textured, mountaineous ground surface in perspective.

So here we go, for the first time ever... Flat land "bumpernized" into rocky mounds. The test texture, since Christmas is starting to get closer, is icy snow (or something similar).



(Hey -- where's the snowman?!)

i think it was lucato that made and published the original "landscape" filter. i think byRo made a version also. there were several versions of this and i'm not sure who all made what. but i'll post what i have.

Landscape LR-a.ffxml

i know these are a bit far afield of what you may be doing now, but perhaps they'll be of use. here's one more i did based off lucato's original.

Landscape lCraigx 3.ffxml

That one is the first attempt, I want to be able to make it look like mountains coming from the ground, right now it is just a bumpy, shapeless blob. The shape should obviously be more triangular and have a slope to it. And would need a few of them one behind the other to give it more depth. Should be able to be composed somewhat seamlessly together with the flat land with texture continuing from one to the other.

Gotta also decide what all should be there. At least, I would say:

-Clouds
-Water
-Ground plane
-Mountains

Other possibilities:

-Rivers
-Roads
-Vegetation -- Trees? Sounds scary-slow, but maybe there is a way to make something simple that would look fine as a part of the whole.

-Sun/Moon/Stars -- I don't know if day and night should be in the same one. They could be, it's mostly a matter of lighting. This is where Betis SkyGen would be good. And/or your stormy clouds.

It could easily become a monster filter, so gotta be a bit selective about how many things to put there, but with that we could get pretty far.

Anything essential missing?

Cool, ThreeDee! This will be very useful. As minimum for environment in 3D projects.
Anyway, I hope so. Will the planned version be working with non-square images?

P.S.

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ThreeDee wrote: (Hey -- where's the snowman?!)

Snowman.ffxml

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Constantin Malkov wrote: Cool, ThreeDee! This will be very useful. As minimum for environment in 3D projects. Anyway, I hope so. Will the planned version be working with non-square images? P.S. Snowman.ffxml

Non-square... Hmm. I'll see if I can make it that way without some major headache. (I usually don't bother as it is easy enough to render a square of the larger dimension and crop it afterwards.)

Yes, I was thinking that this might be useful for instance for creating new reflection environments. Or backdrops.

It might be too ambitious to try and make it randomization-friendly, but if I can, I will.

PS. Snowman. Heh! That's a snowkitteh.