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  • DoctorJellybeanDoctorJellybean Posts: 8,462

    jag11 said:

    Tried the biggest resolution.

    Very nice!

  • HowieFarkesHowieFarkes Posts: 607
    edited March 2022

    Playing around with atmospheric ground fog (and UltraSceneryXT of course - 4 terrains in this scene)

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    1821 x 1024 - 2M
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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,661

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Don't think there is anything else to say.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • sandmanmaxsandmanmax Posts: 992

    MelanieL said:

    I was suffering withdrawal symptoms because I'd not been able to render anything for a few days (other things happening) but got back today. This is a Fairweather preset with an added heightmap created in Bryce and mixed as 100% map to 60% noise. (Clouds and birds added in postwork)

    Oh, that's great that Bryce maps work.  Nice image!

  • sandmanmaxsandmanmax Posts: 992

    jag11 said:

    Tried the biggest resolution.

    This is breathtaking!!  (And what do you mean by "biggest resolution"?)

  • sandmanmaxsandmanmax Posts: 992

    HowieFarkes said:

    Playing around with atmospheric ground fog (and UltraSceneryXT of course - 4 terrains in this scene)

    Are all 4 of them XT?

  • HowieFarkesHowieFarkes Posts: 607

    sandmanmax said:

    HowieFarkes said:

    Playing around with atmospheric ground fog (and UltraSceneryXT of course - 4 terrains in this scene)

    Are all 4 of them XT?

    Yes, but there's only one of them that has a biome
  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,378
    edited March 2022

    Gogger said:

    MelanieL said:

    I was suffering withdrawal symptoms because I'd not been able to render anything for a few days (other things happening) but got back today. This is a Fairweather preset with an added heightmap created in Bryce and mixed as 100% map to 60% noise. (Clouds and birds added in postwork)

    NICE! Now that's more like what I am trying to achieve in my renders. Great job!

    Thank you, gogger!

    Gorgeous renders today - jag11 and Howie

    Post edited by MelanieL on
  • DoctorJellybeanDoctorJellybean Posts: 8,462

    It seems instances are generated at render. Is there a way to hide them? I have a couple of trees in the way.

  • jag11jag11 Posts: 885

    sandmanmax said:

    jag11 said:

    Tried the biggest resolution.

    This is breathtaking!!  (And what do you mean by "biggest resolution"?)

    Thanks. I created the terrain with the maximum resolution allowed. There are 4 of them, being 128, 256, 512 and 1024 (biggest).

  • jag11jag11 Posts: 885

    DoctorJellybean said:

    jag11 said:

    Tried the biggest resolution.

    Very nice!

    Thanks, Doctor.

  • jag11jag11 Posts: 885

    MelanieL said:

    Gogger said:

    MelanieL said:

    I was suffering withdrawal symptoms because I'd not been able to render anything for a few days (other things happening) but got back today. This is a Fairweather preset with an added heightmap created in Bryce and mixed as 100% map to 60% noise. (Clouds and birds added in postwork)

    NICE! Now that's more like what I am trying to achieve in my renders. Great job!

    Thank you, gogger!

    Gorgeous renders today - jag11 and Howie

    Thanks, Melanie. 

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,661
    edited March 2022

    richardandtracy said:

    barbult said:

    richardandtracy said:

    I have had a lovely bit of fun just creating with USXT. I did notice though, on this latest one, some odd pyramidal artefacts (two along the far foreshore halfway up on the left, others elsewhere). Has anyone else had something similar?

    Regards,

    Richard

    Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but aren't those shadows from the rocks? Can you circle in red or something, the areas of concern? If you change the light angle, do the triangles change?

    Most are identified below:

    The scene was modelled at a 512 resolution. The pyramids look as if they could be due to one of two reasons: Insufficient resolution on the mesh or rounding issues on the vertex altitude. Probably mesh density. They are not a problem - I only noticed the first by accident - just curious if anyone else has come across them. I shall try smothing (if I haven't already). I will also see if I can get a duf file that I can share this evening - the machine is offline and not the one I am on at the moment. The sky is a freebie HDRI not everyone might have, so I need to get rid of that.

    One other problem/oddity I had was that the height limitation on the biome only responded to the <Enter> key on the main keyboard. No changes were kept if I used the <Enter> key on the number pad, and even when using the main <Enter> key, the USXT addon only changed the Biome height limit every third attempt. When changing the forest lower altitude I could only get altitudes of 0m or 1m to register (I ended up with 1m) and not my desired 0.25m to give a small shoreline.

    Regards,

    Richard

    At Howie's suggestion I upped the resolution to 1024, and all the pyramids disappeared.

    Regards,

    Richard.

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  • AnEye4ArtAnEye4Art Posts: 766

    I've started to upscale all my maps to 11000x11000, as a test, to get maximum texture effect on the terrains and I like the results so far.

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    1931 x 869 - 3M
  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,389
    edited March 2022

    Here are two versions of the same UltraScenery scene with a USXT background, each with a tiny bit of Photoshop Neural A.I. on the water's edge and moutain side, and each with a different sky treatment in Luminar A.I. - I'm really liking all this coming together in a gigantic 3D and A.I. soup!

     

    DS_Nordic_Lake_3D_Erik_Pedersen.jpg
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    DS_Nordic_Lake_2_3D_Erik_Pedersen.jpg
    3440 x 1440 - 1M
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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,240

    @Gogger you are doing a very convincing job of blending UltraScenery and UltraSceneryXT. Good soup!

  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,389

    barbult said:

    @Gogger you are doing a very convincing job of blending UltraScenery and UltraSceneryXT. Good soup!

    Thank you, Ma'am! I really need to spend some quality time with your UltraScenery tutorials on editing maps and controlling the environment, as well as changing ecologies via json. I'm familiar with the ideas in general, just not in practice on US. I really appreciate all the effort you put into helping others!

  • AnEye4ArtAnEye4Art Posts: 766
    edited March 2022

    Sometimes my heightmaps in USXT create mountain peaks that are too high. I know that I can lower the contrast in editing to fix hight issues, or in my case, I lower the mountain height in worldcreator before export, but it's not an exact science. So I try using USXT's gamma in the heightmap tab for extra control but the results are like the inverse of the vignette effect - not desirable. It would be nice to have a contrast option to help lower the 'whites' in the heightmaps.

    Post edited by AnEye4Art on
  • AnEye4ArtAnEye4Art Posts: 766

    Just an alien landscape test.

    Very Alien.png
    1931 x 869 - 3M
  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,454

    Any tips about, how to mix UltraScenery with UltraScenery XT?

     

  • AnEye4ArtAnEye4Art Posts: 766
    edited March 2022
    The possibilities are endless with some imagination.
    Post edited by AnEye4Art on
  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,661

    I knew there was a catch!

    Where can I get some of this 'imagination' stuff?

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • jag11jag11 Posts: 885

    Gogger said:

    Here are two versions of the same UltraScenery scene with a USXT background, each with a tiny bit of Photoshop Neural A.I. on the water's edge and moutain side, and each with a different sky treatment in Luminar A.I. - I'm really liking all this coming together in a gigantic 3D and A.I. soup!

     

    I loved them.

  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,378
    edited March 2022

    I noticed something yesterday. I was using a hand-made height map which has a largish patch of mid-grey (no features) so creates a flat area. The tree biome doesn't populate that area at all, even with min slope set to zero. Is this deliberate (a handy way to create a clearing?) or a mistake?

    ETA: I had no noise added at the time. Adding a small amount of noise sorted it out, but I didn't really want that elsewhere on the terrain.

    Post edited by MelanieL on
  • sandmanmaxsandmanmax Posts: 992

    Is there any way to position the water plane other than up/down and making it bigger or smaller?

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,240

    sandmanmax said:

    Is there any way to position the water plane other than up/down and making it bigger or smaller?

    Turn on show Hidden Nodes in the Scene pane and you will see the water as an object in the scene list. Then you can move it. Your terrain materials probably won't look right, though, because they were calculated based on the water parameter the scene was built with, I believe. That's probably why the water node is hidden in the first place!

  • davesodaveso Posts: 6,993

    is there a way to return to default settings? 

  • PlatnumkPlatnumk Posts: 666

    daveso said:

    is there a way to return to default settings? 

    Right Click on the setting you wish to reset & you will get a Reset To Default option appear 

  • davesodaveso Posts: 6,993

    Platnumk said:

    daveso said:

    is there a way to return to default settings? 

    Right Click on the setting you wish to reset & you will get a Reset To Default option appear 

    bummer ii i reset a lot of them so will probably have to do every one 1 at a time.  Need a general default reset. 

  • AnEye4ArtAnEye4Art Posts: 766
    edited March 2022

    Just read on the worldcreator discord forum that terrain tiling is coming to WC by May 2022. This is big news since there's been a sample render here of multiple USXT terrains used in one scene. With WC, I see the possibility of combining multiple biomes into one large terrain like, a dessert, snow and forrest all on one terrain. If USXT does not implement terrain tiling of some sort, at least I will have even higher resolution tiled textures once exported from WC.

    Post edited by AnEye4Art on
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