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Published: 2003-02-01 17:54:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 1015; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 58
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Description A Little Rain Must Fall...
I have been trying to really stretch myself lately when it comes to Terragen. Regular scenes are fine and dandy, but I want something ...more....out of my stuff. I have seen people do snow and such but I have never never seen a Terragen scene with rain for some odd reason. I was actually going to have this be a meteor-strike scene with a large comet punching a fiery hole in that layer of clouds (sounds corny but it was starting to look cool) and decided it didnt really fit the mood here so i scrapped it (maybe next pic )

Anyhoo, the scene is all terragen 0.844 (I havent upgraded yet) and took about 1 hour 43 minutes to render.
The moon was made in Paint Shop Pro 6 using the Lunar Cell plugin and a bit of creative merging.
The rain was done by adding a seperate level with a linear gradient (dark top to light bottom), adding random noise then applying a motion blur at a near 90 degree angle a few times. I then merged it all together, tweaked the opacity and then smudges, softened and erased around the edge till i got the soft effect I was looking for. It's not perfect yet, but its a good start.

Comments appreciated
Wes - ::[Matrix7]::
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Comments: 26

fineartbyandrewdavid [2009-03-24 02:28:19 +0000 UTC]

wow

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matrix7 In reply to fineartbyandrewdavid [2009-03-26 00:58:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the comment Glad you like it. I haven't done Terragen in years and am getting back into it. Keep en eye out - more to come soon.

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fineartbyandrewdavid In reply to matrix7 [2009-03-26 01:21:39 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome
i once tried Terragen but didn't get very far with it
oh and had a go at Bryce too

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theamazingauthor101 [2008-03-01 23:28:18 +0000 UTC]

This looks a lot like Wales...and Wales is really pretty, so that's fine by me!

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IzaLoozer [2003-11-17 05:48:09 +0000 UTC]

Excellent!!! Until this, I had never seen a Terragen image with rain either. You did a great job pulling it off. I love the way you have the clouds darkened over the raining area showing the storm moving across the sky. The mist(Fog?) seems as though it might be to evenly spread out across the landscape, though I'm not sure how you could do this any other way with Terragen. Regardless...I think it's better than anything I've been able to do so far...

Nice Work. . .

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matrix7 In reply to IzaLoozer [2003-11-17 21:45:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the comment man, good to see some familiaricons around (points to your avatar and grins). Keep in touch, I am trying to get some new stuff on DA, but I am very limited on time yaknow?

Well, back to work!
L8terzzz man

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garcia [2003-11-06 06:21:56 +0000 UTC]

Very cool render Wes,lookas though we were thinking along the same lines again check this one [link] there are some very cool cloud brushes here on DA,that you might be able to addapt to use in PSP..for the fog.. great post work,keep up the great work..
Later

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jambatx [2003-03-11 16:42:44 +0000 UTC]

Wow,, how did you make the rain effect.. yo man that is tite as shiznit... You should teach how you did that man... quickly..the foggyness makes a cool height illusion.. great work man.

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wuju [2003-03-03 23:28:52 +0000 UTC]

lol. lovely work stretching terragen is always fun, aint it?

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higgs [2003-02-27 14:03:11 +0000 UTC]

the fog doesn't look so even to me chrono, it's smoothly rendered and plays a good role with the low opacity mountains in the background, /me likes a lot

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chronocore [2003-02-12 13:56:01 +0000 UTC]

Very nice... I love the fog. My only complaint is that the fog looks too even... would be nice to see just a bit of it crawling up the hillside a little ways... and give it a more wavy look on the top. Would make it seem much more realistic there

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stotty [2003-02-07 00:58:30 +0000 UTC]

"you are taking Terragen to another level" - esheafer - he is right you know.

Excellent concept and very well executed.

As for suggestions, the texturing looks a little too bumpy here, all the black bits are caused by that, the bump/scale looks good though. The colours seem good too.

I like the fog bit.

The rain, well what can I say, a great technique you have, ingenious, well done and the coulds look dark enough for the rain too.

The moon I like.

Well done on this.

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jibrille [2003-02-04 02:41:41 +0000 UTC]

Very nice work man, You are definately an improving terragen artist, gettin better and better.

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tigaer [2003-02-03 20:31:17 +0000 UTC]

stormy conditions huh? really cool wallpaper... the moon the rain the ground fog... really cool atmosphere nice work

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lzrelak [2003-02-03 16:58:40 +0000 UTC]

Very cool, I love the moon and the simulated rain...very good job.

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breid [2003-02-03 16:19:42 +0000 UTC]

Excellent, excellent work. Love that fog.

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furryphotos [2003-02-03 02:19:06 +0000 UTC]

Hmm a combination of 2 difficult elemetns here. Rain and night. The rain is handled quite well actually with the land looking suffciently wet and all. It still looks a bit too bright for a night scene though. Land fog is also a nice touch.

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bookdiva [2003-02-02 20:14:49 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful textures in this, the sky looks ominous, love the lush greens, nice work on this, and rainfall, cleanses the earth, once again.

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esheafer [2003-02-02 18:05:17 +0000 UTC]

Awesome pic! I have nothing to add that hasn't been said except I think you are taking Terragen to another level and I like it!

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koonak [2003-02-02 08:43:11 +0000 UTC]

Very nice! The rain is very well done. Looks like the rest has been covered. Except the shadow lightness is off some. Still an over all great job!

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sixwings [2003-02-02 02:26:18 +0000 UTC]

Great rain effect nicely done.
I like the fog in there although I agree about it needing less contrast in its thickness. Also I agree that the scene overall is too light for a night scene.
The textures are nice and very thick which is good, but maybe try setting the scale of each texture down a tad - don't know.
Great colors in this as well.

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parash [2003-02-01 20:08:39 +0000 UTC]

Awesome job on the texturing.. its something what I say different!

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merlinphenn [2003-02-01 19:55:38 +0000 UTC]

It looks kind of weird with the fog starting so suddenly,when the foreground is soooooo clear. Should be a little more gradual I think.

Good work though I like the rain and your texturing is sooooooooo above me it is really kind of sad :-/

Cheers

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ph1r3st4rter [2003-02-01 18:37:48 +0000 UTC]

the scene maybe just a little bright for the light of the moon [ well actually reflection ] try reducing some of the brightness. anyway good concept with the rain/fog thing.. yeah ive seen it done before... and on Da i actually think theres a tutorial on it.. somewhere seya

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i337m1k3 [2003-02-01 17:59:13 +0000 UTC]

pretty awesome moon! fog doesnt look that good... i luv that rain and clouds though... very kool peice and a actual original terragen peice hehe

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nova-e [2003-02-01 17:57:46 +0000 UTC]

if ONLY i had terragen

regardless, nice work! though I think the fog could be lightened and put for sparingly.

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