Winter in Canada

[blueman]

Terrain with Geo Control 2.

Very big EcoSystem with conifers in Vue 6 Infinite.

Thank you for viewing and comments.

[Xpleet]

Looks beautiful but it also looks like a game :D.

[cajomi]

That looks at all awesome.

Nether the less, the erosion is a bit to heavy. In natur the valleys are smoother than the mountains, not allways, but mostly, and really mostly, if there are trees in the valleys which protect the terrain against erosion.
Perhaps you try to use a higher slope dependence in the erosion setting or add the thin flows sediment filter to fill the rough valleys with sediments.

When I do terrrain rendering in Vue I almost set the terrain size to nearly real world dimensions (not in the terrain editor, but by simple scaling the object to a km size). That improves at once the scaling with plants, add the needed haze for distance feeling. Only camera work is after that not so fast.

[blueman]

Cajomi,

thank you for your response and positive recommendantions. Very appreciate.

[monks]

Yes, I thought the erosion was a bit severe. As said, erosion washes debris downslope, so you will have smoother features at the base of mountains. It does look like a model but I kinda like models/ maps. :)

monks

[blueman]

Is this picture better?

I follow cajomi recommendations.

The valley is more smoth. I apply glaciation.

The terrain is 1 km.

Thank you for viewing and comments.

[cajomi]

Yes , definitly better.
1km, then the size of the trees is fitting. But the structures of the mountains look more like 20km.
I know, in 20km scale, there would be over a million trees, and very small trees.

Somehow, the erosion structures in the new image are much more eye attracting!

[monks]

The veg looks better now. Exactly what I was about to say Johannes. It's about scale. If you imagine the water dropping down the slopes to create those erosion lines, how would that amount of water (weight/volume) create such strong incised lines? The answer is it must be very soft rock indeed or chemically eroded like in karst (limestone).
Now if you scale it up, water could erode lines like that because the inherent surface resistance of the rock remains basically the same but the force of erosion becomes greater because of greater volumes of water -not to mention possible thermal weathering from ice.



monks