Dark Sun - Wasteland

[Silverblade The Ench]

What matters man, amidst such barren majesty?



small version

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[Jon_Dahl]

Wow, I really liked! I'd like it to look less digitized though, and bit more real... but it's beautiful. I give it 7/10 (which is a lot!)

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Jon
Cheers!

oh it would look a lot more real if I did it to look like "Earth"
problem is, it's not, Athas would make things look VERY much different
the actual sky of Athas is often said to be dark olive green and it has a red giant sun
now if I rendered that it would look SO damn weird if I didn't "cheat" it

so I'm trying to keep it "feeling" like Athas but within reason AND what a render engine can handle

colours get washed out by that blazing Sun so that reduces realism, too

I should have worked on the edges of the rock where the terrain got pixellated so it (wrongly) looks sharp, BUT if I'd done that it would lose too much detail
and I jsut don't have time/patience left to mess with things much any more :/

 

[Blackrat]

Nice one again Silverblade. If only I wasn't so fond of my Naboo Under Imperial Control desktop, I'd replace it with this

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Blackrat,
ta!
hehe!

Yet even MORE tweaking, lol
trying to get this to look "right" is much MUCH harder than with normal worlds

Full Sized version
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/darksun/darksun_wasteland3.jpg

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Cor_malek
cheers!
as said it's actually much harder to do that, than an ordinary sun! lot of Photoshop wprk to get the Sun looking like that

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Coe_Malek
yeah re-rendered it with a new type of atmosphere I made, and then did some jiggery-pokery in Photoshop to make the SUn darker in spots

Jonesy,
ta!

 

[frankthedm]

Your terrain renders are always excellent.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Frank, Korgoth,
cheers!
well only been really "learning" improving 'em past year or two, lol, landscapes are hard, before that I was figuring out ways ot make characters look better, model making, better materials etc
still lot ot learn about terrains, then figure set up for more "livlier" looks, and making better plant/terrian integrationt hat looks real
I'll get there!

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Bit more tweaking
making the sy more olive green as many descriptiosn have it

And another version, been messing aorund with stuff

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