creation of realistic rolling hills

[Alexander]

I don't know if it will help you, but have a look at that tutorial :

http://www.taffix.com/Tutorials/Material/MountainMap/index.htm

[Ryan-B]

I have 3 hills that make up the background scenery of my animation and i am having great trouble making them look photo real. I dont see covering them in grass as doable becuase of the amazing amount of processinr power needed. Ive tired a flat texture with bump maps but it just looks like that..a texture.It has none of the vegitation and rock look to it.

You answered your own question: "it has none of the vegetation and rock look to it".

What you are probably missing is the detail required to give a sense of scale. Huge objects, like mountains, have lots of tiny details that tell us it is a large object. If you are applying a texture made for a small rock, it will make your mountain look like a small rock. In science-fiction movies, they put lots of small lights and doo-dads on the big ships to make them look big (even though they are just models). You need a texture with lots of tiny details.

You should post an image of what you are working on. You will get more comments on an image than a rough description.

[Seven]

Yeah when i posted that post i hadnt completed the composition of the scene so i didnt have much to post.

Here is the image, ive just added a basic colour to the 3 hills for this thread.

Alexander that does look helpful thank you.. ill try it. And I agree Ryan its all about detail. BTW this is very much WIP.

I will work on it some more later and post an update.

Sev

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