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Tom N.
02-25-2003, 01:53 PM
Hey everyone, I am looking for advice on how to make a forest enviornment that would cover 180 degrees around a cabin I modeled.

Some things I've thought of already are to maybe use paint fx, but make the forest background in a different scene and just render one frame of it and use it as a backdrop so that I dont have to render tons of paint fx frames out. I've also thought of just using a real picture of a forest for a backdrop as well but the problem with these ideas is the transition from the ground to the backdrop, it seems kinda sketchy. Also the scene takes place at night which doesn't make it much easier..

I'm workin on this right now, I'm just looking for any advice or ideas as to how others would go about doing this.

Thanks,

-Tom N.
Rudity
02-25-2003, 01:59 PM
I would model and texture ONE tree
Id use that tree for all my tree's
Place them around and warp, bend sculpt them differently (sculpt polygon/surface too is best)
Scale them i size, put some further back. closer, taller. etc etc

I would paint the backdrop in photoshop very quickly and ugly.
Put it on a plane.

Then Id use DOF to blur the Hell outa the background to hide my shitty painted backdrop.

Works for me.


Later
Tom N.
02-25-2003, 03:02 PM
haha sounds like you work quickly, thanks for the advice

-Tom N.
TuLe
02-25-2003, 05:33 PM
I would use PaintFX separeted or composed in your scene!
But like Rudity said, modeling one tree and them modfied it would work as well!
Also have you thought about using simple textures like trees pics on a simple plane like thoes trees on games ex: GT3 and many others?
Tom N.
02-25-2003, 09:03 PM
I thought about just using a pic of a tree in the background, but I want the forest to go in sort of a half circle shape around the log cabin so that it can be viewed from different camera angles
DarkBane
02-26-2003, 08:58 AM
Ideally, if I had a forest or some woods around me, I would take a camera and tripod out into the woods, then using the tripod I take multiple pictures, like a panoramic. I'd take all of those pictures and composite them into one picture, then I'd map that picture onto a 180 degree cylinder or sphere (whatever you want).

I it's too realistic for you, then you can still blur the hell out of it, and you still have a pretty nice backdrop.

Good Luck
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