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Deliverer
12-25-2006, 06:26 AM
Is there anyone that can shed light on a technique for creating realistic sand environments such as found in Iraq? Im working on a project that has an Iraqi town and my buildings look very nice, but when I try to make the outlying terrain, ie: the desert, I just plain ole' cant figure out what to do. I followed a tutorial on 3dtotal.com for Smart Terrain. Now the map itself is perfect I can adjust the strength of the displacement to my liking. No problem there. But when I go to add sand as a texture, or even just mess with the shaders, it looks aweful. I was hoping maybe by some crazy turn of luck someone has modelled a desert and could shed some light on what to try. I use 3ds Max btw. Any help is always appreciated, thank you in adavance.
artisanfx
12-25-2006, 09:42 AM
can you post your pic you made ? just to see how it was looking
Deliverer
12-25-2006, 03:09 PM
Surely, hope this link works, have trouble with posting images sometimes.

1.)

http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desert3hv1.jpg

2.)

http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desert2fc3.jpg

3.)

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9960/desert1xe3.jpg


You can see in these that it does not look quite like a desert and in the third it appears to look like tinted water almost.
artisanfx
12-25-2006, 10:39 PM
yes it looks like tinted water ground

I did some example but cutn upload it to this forum so i upped it to anothere forum with a example pic maybe that will give your some idee how you can build a sahara sandy ground

you can find it here : http://www.dreammotion.com/cg/viewtopic.php?t=515
Deliverer
12-25-2006, 11:09 PM
Looks much better than mine ha ha ha. I appreciate the help! Thanks a lot!
artisanfx
12-25-2006, 11:10 PM
your welcome :)
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