New ME-DEM terrain: Carn Dum.

[monks]

Hello all, just pointing you to some new terrain shots here:

http://me-dem.ashundar.com/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,32/catid,2/PageNo,3/

It's the firtst time I've used GeoControl to build anything but I've found it extremely useful for certain things. It's a great app!
I didn't create the entire terrain within GeoControl but I have used it extensively for the filters and brush. I used a soft rocks filter to create the limestone of the plateau, and a modified mountain filter to get the limestone look of the mountains. I used another more subtle brush on the mountain at the end of the range (Carn Dum). This is an igneous protrusion.

The area details an 80 Km square area of Tolkien's Middle Earth: the Nan Angmar and Carn Dum. The terrain is at 20m resolution and sits within a much larger map. The Carn Dum site was modelled previously and merged with the surrounding area.
At the moment the terrain has no erosion applied to it. The next shots should illustrate some of GeoControl's erosion.

Also, you can find more shots of the terrain rendered in Terragen in the gallery :)

Cheers,
monks

[cajomi]

thanks for sharing your work with us.
I think, those shots make really clear, how complex and difficult such a project is. And well, that is what the brush was ment for. The results looks xlt. Your are really building a world.

[monks]

Thanks Johannes, GeoControl will feature in our next article as it seems to have found a niche in our workflow. There's lots of other stuff I've yet to try out: especially the Project tab and layers.
For me, the real beauty of the terrain, is that it is fully georefferenced and could happily sit on a globe. That gives me a bit more passion for making terrain.:)

As promised, here are a few more shots showing some of GeoControl's erosion in action.

http://me-dem.ashundar.com/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,32/catid,2/PageNo,7/

It is a basic filter:
4096 terrain, 256 terrain protection.
Thin Flows, Classic Rain, cross flows.

I'm very pleased with the erosion- it's a good indication of the quality of what's possible.

Cheers,
monks

ps, do you have any plans for a gallery on the boards?

[cajomi]

With the new website we will have a full functional user gallerie. It will all be integrated into one portal.

That is erosion ment for. Looks very natural and I definitly love those inhomogeneous terrains.