We've just released version 1.26 of Forester which includes a load of new features to generate flowers and small plants. This has been worrying us for a while. Up until now Forester was great at creating trees, bushes and shrubs, and could make grass, but flowers and many small herbaceous plants were problematic. The…
Thanks everyone for the kind words and the great questions! Let’s dive in. Working in VR is truly like walking on a razor's edge. It’s a technical hell where every decision must be calculated ten steps ahead. Performance requirements (high resolution across two displays + high frame rates) leave no room for error, and you…
Yo, I'm loving this environment! The flowers are beautiful and the scene is just very stunning in general. A few areas I'd like to point out for consideration: A. Your camera angles seem low in general, especially when looking at the wagon. Main camera angles should generally be done from eye-level, unless there's a…
Yep, exactly! Lightening up the hill and lowering contrast within the hill shape to push it further into the BG. Nothing fancy. The actual term is "Diminution" which might produce better google results for you. (or "associated shapes") it basically just means that same/similar objects appear smaller on canvas as they…
Foliage cards I painted myself in Photoshop to run through Maya for the big tree! The leaves and flowers are based off of the Dipteryx oleifera tree species from South America. I figured since the setting is a greenhouse and the other plants in the scene will likely be tropical I should keep this consistent with the design…
Here is the final piece! Its much less blue, I took away most of the purple flowers in the garden area but I left some by the roadside, and lowers the size of the lantern light so it does shine on the ground anymore. I added a fire in the oven, and smoke coming out of all the chimneys. I couldn't get any rock textures for…
@jenast_ Wow, thank you very much! I used 3D Coat to do all of the sculpting. For the flowers and foliage specifically, I used voxel mode along with alphas I made for a little shrub and a little flower. I started a new layer and just started stamping greenery all over the surface of the book cover until it was built up…
They look like bee's because bee's were the selective pressure. I was essentially mirroring the evolution of the bee orchid, so at first I had them look at the flowers through 'bee vision' (a red filter) to understand that they're drawing flowers that look good to them ( a human) but may be invisible to the bee (what the…
Tldr; fiddling with things till i get it right, learned the milliseconds matter eventually, got 2 versions of the shader now. Yeah, i am testing taking apart the current setups of the current material shader options available and seeing what does what and then re-configuring them back together, its been a learning…
It looks good overall, but I don't quite understand what kind of damage you are trying to portray in some places. Do you have a reference? Are the deeper holes rotten and painted over? It looks dented in with a blunt instrument, perhaps because it's an overlay and the underlying structure doesn't change. The roughness…