Waterfall Environment
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I'm working on a waterfall environment based off this concept (not done by me).
Here's a block out in modo.
And here's my progress so far:
Here's a block out in modo.
And here's my progress so far:
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Going back and forth in my head between using alpha cards and particles for the water. :S
Thanks for crits!
use both, alpha'd meshes with animated uvs for the main sheets of water with particles to break up the pattern and add a touch more dynamism will give you the best result
I'm curious to see how you approach the waterfalls though, I'm currently building a scene that has waterfalls as well but I've never used particles and animated textures so I will likely be lurking
I look at this concept ,and I must say i really like the idea.However your stones could use a bit chipped shape and more sharpness.By chance I happen to have a recent model i modeled yesterday.You can see it HERE.And nice techniques to make stones I can also suggest - visit THIS blog , It has great VIDEO tutorials (linked by the right side).They are procedural stone modeling tutorials.Great job so far :thumbup:
If you take a look in that GDC map in April UDk theres a waterfall in there
Woah that is an awesome environment
Thanks for the tips!
the wet and shiny stuff might be a bit overkill/complicated but atleast having the moss blending in there would be super useful and allow you to get more out of that rock asset.
edit you could also use the same sort of shader with an added uv scroll in the second set of uvs to acjheive the thick mist of water that the rocks inside the waterfall protrude out of
Going away for the weekend, see you guys on monday.
I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out..good luck!
why? it looks to me like his UVs on the rocks are all unique anyway, no textures would be saved by making such a shader, which is usually their point
there are a couple reasons, instead of having a rock diffuse with no moss, and a rock diffuse with moss, you could easily use a smaller tileable moss texture and save some memory.
but the texture saving thing wasnt the point of that shader idea, it allows you to get a lot more out of a single asset instead of having to make a bunch of variations, which saves time and it saves having to load a bunch of different models and shaders for each unique variation. basically it just allows you to make the most of an asset.
lookin cool feanix, the wet stuff looks pretty good, easily tweakable after the water fall itself is in place if it looks off. I would block in the mountain side before doing a bunch of smaller details, its the other major part of the scene. keep it up dude!
Take your normal map, desaturate it and apply a high-pass filter in PS. Then, adjust levels (bring the midtone slider closer to hightone slider) until you have a strong contrast between the dark tones and bright tones which correspond to your edges. Place it on top of your diffuse and set bledning mode to either screen, lighter color or color dodge. The lines will be probably too clean, so beat them up a bit with some brushes, or apply Render Clouds as a mask (and tweak it until it looks right). I usually set opacity of the layer to 50, but it really depends on your diffuse.
Oh; and good luck with this scene
The normal map thing worked nicely, teaandcigarettes, thanks! (big admirer of yours, btw! you are too good to be allowed).
Here's some progress. I'm going to to the water next.
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I might add some of those towards the end, ZacD!
@haidddasalami: Ooooh. Well, they'll be mostly covered up by water. They're meant to look wet.
Sure, they're wet. However they also just look like completely different assets (ie. you didn't just clone and reposition your original rocks but placed differently generated rock back there.) Such that your rock group surrounding the doorway don't match the style, shape, coloring, etc of it's surroundings.
I believe Grey's point was that perhaps those rocks would work better (with some tweaking) than those over the doorway. I know it hurts to throw stuff out but sometimes it's part of the game.
Or perhaps a meeting in the middle and just tweaking both sets of rock bodies to the point where they match better. You would then use your lighting to pop your area of focus.
Keep up the great work.
That plant looks gigantic and waterfall is not convincing though. I would also breakup geometric shape of that bridge a notch to give it a bit more organic quality
I also changed the ground on the bridge, as you can see.
maybe try to put a fresnel into the water material transparency so you dont see those hard edges where the mesh is viewed in profile.
possible waterfall texture
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Other than that though, lookin swell sir!
Seems like the big steam particle on the right is just falling, a rotation and possible scale may help. Opacity seem a tad strong but that could be the lighting. I'd also place some of the large steam particles in the lower right foreground (so a bit covers the bridge), and another on the other side as though it's the base of that major fall.
A drip particle for the entrance and rocks around would be a nice touch.
Don't be afraid to abuse vegetation to block any odd rock/water transitions.
Really coming together though,like a painting. Looking forward to see how that bridge ends up.
Cholden, I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting with the placement of the large steam particles? Where did you mean, exactly?
ideally, the one on the right, in front of the bridge would barely peak the rail as not to compromise the composition.
EDIT: Exclamation marks!