Waterfall

[Deathcom3s]

I posted this in an old thread, and i don't think anybody even noticed it, and i'd like some feedback/comments on it, so I decided to post it here.

 

[ArcticInferno]

Nice. But the waterfall seems out of place, or perhaps out of focus.

It's not obvious that it's a waterfall, too.

 

[Wolfhelm]

I think it looks pretty cool, but can barely see the waterfall and where is the river? Maybe make terrain dip down so you can see the river and the background to left ends in grey fog i would raise it up a bit so you can see ground and thin out fog. The lighting effects are nice tho.

 

[ArcticInferno]

He said it better. lol

 

[Luckerguy]

The Doodad Spam isnt pretty nice. But i like the idea and the atmosphere. GJ

 

[raid1000]

i likez it! BUT the waterfall and the sharp edges of the light from above model that i hate kinda ruins it

Bronze Coin

 

[Celaquil]

The only thing I dont like about it is how it kind of looks like a nice and beatuiful summer day in the forest in the foreground. And then goes over to abrupt white fog in the background, just.. BAM and its there. >.>

 

[thedeathunterxx]

legendary work =D

i find it very interesting how the waterfall appears after looking at it for a second.
and thats when you feel the depth of the screenie.

good work... everything seems good about it ...no flaws .... umm unless

you should place a closer up fog maybe.. i dont know

 

[Leeroy]

Looks pretty sexy.
Actually I don't have alot of time to find out what's wrong with this.

But that's damn good.

 

[Deathcom3s]

Thanks for the positive comments everyone!

I'll try it with a less dense fog, and see how it looks then.

 

[Wraithwynd]

My first reaction is 'where's the waterfall?'

I like the forest floor - reminds me of a rain forest in the fall - thick lush, and ready for first snow.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Needs more narwhals.

Or atleast a waterfall there's easier to see.

 

[Deathcom3s]

I REALLY hate to bump this thread, but me and DSG did a little experiment with this terrain and we managed it to render at a huge resolution of 1934x1417 with HD settings. Shield your eyes, it is bright.

Warning: The image is a total of 3.7mb in JPG format!

 

[Dr Super Good]

Incase you are wondering why there is no Antialiasing, its because it physically refused to work at that resolution (was on but did not take effect).
Uncompressed in screenshot form it reaches a massive 10 MB the image so over 50% reduction for near lossless compression was pretty good.
Ofcourse better hardware could probably produce better results but come on people, that is how a terrain screenshot should look.
It is so big you will have to downsize it to use as a desktop lol.

Basically how I did this was by making a fake resolution for my screen which displayed at my screens suported resolution but was internally a whole lot bigger. I also used intensive filters like AF and AA at the highest settings, although the AA failed to turn on at that resolution but hopefully the AF worked.

If you would like to learn more or talk about such high quality images, feel free to contact me.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

wow very crisp man

imagine it in PNG format !!!! =O OMFG i cant imagine.

 

[Nbah]

I can see my house from there.

 

[adnertsy]

Nice. But the waterfall seems out of place, or perhaps out of focus.

It's not obvious that it's a waterfall, too.

I can only se the forest and the "waterfall" is a bit to disy...

 

[Deathcom3s]

That was the point, you kind of have to actually look for the waterfall.

The whole point for reviving this thread was because that most recent screenshot i posted is the first HD Terrain.

 

[Eleandor]

Quite pointless to render in such a high resolution when the models are as undetailed as they are...

imagine it in PNG format !!!! =O OMFG i cant imagine.

zomfg I can't imagine it either! It'll take up to 1 hour to load and it'll look exactly the same! wow!

It's a good terrain though...

 

[Ham Ham]

If you want a feedback, you should focus the watterfall, not the grass and trees because I barely can see the waterfall.

 

[~Void~]

Quite pointless to render in such a high resolution when the models are as undetailed as they are...


zomfg I can't imagine it either! It'll take up to 1 hour to load and it'll look exactly the same! wow!

It's a good terrain though...

Zomfg I can't imagine how slow your computer/internet is

 

[Eleandor]

zomfg fast enough for everything except png's that come from this website. It's stupid to increase the size of your image by a factor 10 if the quality does not visually increase. I mean: do you ever listen to wav music? I assume you use mp3.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

wat's the difference between PNG and JPEG, other then size and quality ?

PNG makes things look more defined. JPEG uses to few pixels compared to PNG, so i imagine the pic would look even crispier.

thing is the textures of the models in the pic themselves aren;t that good...however if you took a high resolution picture.... It might be REAL HD.

So deathcom3, can yo make a high resolution pic of a high resolution terrain ??? just wondering..

srry i trailed off, what were we talkin about again xD

 

[Eleandor]

PNG makes things look more defined. JPEG uses to few pixels compared to PNG, so i imagine the pic would look even crispier.

wut? Resolution has nothing to do with the image type. Jpeg uses a great compression method and at 90% quality you already greatly reduce filesize without losing any visual quality. Anyone using PNG's is using it because they like screwing with about 80% of the internet users that only have fast internet and not very fast internet. It's nearly as annoying as uploading tga's. But hey, go ahead if you don't mind that the majority just ignores your pictures.

 

[~Void~]

Oh yeah, I definitely like screwing with people by making them take forever to load my terrains so they can't see them and don't give me rep. Uh huh. Naw, it's because I want 100% quality instead of 90% or whatever, it looks like 50%. Especially when the terrain is dark.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

lol eleandor has a point

i usto use dial up.... PNg pictures weren't an option for me x.x

but i notice that PNG looks way better then JPeg.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Ummmmm, thats the jpeg....
The PNG uncompressed was 10MB, the image attached is 3.7 MB. I gave it to him with as little compression as possiable just to see the quality of it. You could probably reduce it to under 2 MB while still keeping a reasonable quality level but this was just a test.

May I remind you lot that he did not take the image, I did as a test to show how a real terrain image could look. I choose to use his terrain for the test as there simply was no one with ready made terrain available. The results are clear, not only is mine more detailed, but the textures are less blury and you could downsize it to half the resolution for super sampled AA if the image is too big.

To me the terrain looks pretty good, have no clue WTF most of you are on about the waterfall.

Anyway, if you think you have a terrain more worthy of HD, then feel free to contact me and I am more than willing to take the screenshot for you.