Salt Pools

[craftycurate]

Another 8192 * 8192 terrain map and texture, rendered in Vue 6I. This time, I added a water plane.

Once again, original render too big to post here - follow this link for full-size image.

Isolines, plus quite a few selectors and filters.

http://www.cornucopia3d.com/galleries/displayimage.php?pid=11088&fullsize=1

Thanks
Richard

[cajomi]

It is really interesting to see, that you use the GC 2 texture maps inside Vue and that the results are remarkable.

[craftycurate]

Thanks ... yes, apart from the water plane, everything comes from GC2.

One feature that works very well, is that the lowest parts of the GC2 texture map are blue - this was done using a height selector, but these blue areas are all below the Vue water plane. However, this gives a greater depth to the pools by darkening the deepest parts of the pool, which creates a wonderful effect which I discovered by accident! I love accidental discovery in this process.

The salty layer was also done using a selector with a little fuzziness, and it came out better than I hoped.

I'm having great fun with this program!

My next challenge is to try to create a cracked earth effect, to have the mud curl up round the edges of the cracks.