deviant art

Deviant Login
Buy Art Buy adCast Buy Premium Membership
Shop		  Join deviantART for FREE Take the Tour
[x]
Browse More Like This
Shop Similar Prints
This Print Not Available more ▶

More from *Penboa

Featured in Groups:

:iconthe3dartistclub: #The3DArtistClub
One of the Biggest 3D Clubs! :icondigital-artists: #digital-artists
Premier Digital Artwork :icon3d-artists: #3D-Artists
Supporting 3D Artists :iconvueport: #VuePort
Devious Digital Nature :icon3d-enchantment: #3d-Enchantment
Come and be Enchanted :iconworld-imaginary: #World-Imaginary
Show your imagination :iconidigitalist: #iDIGITALIST
We LOVE Digital Art :icontrees-with-character: #Trees-With-character
Its all about the Trees!!!

Details

February 11
1,005 KB
1920×1080
Link
Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 11
Favourites: 49 [who?]


Views: 734 (0 today)
[x]
:iconpenboa:
High altitude alpine forest with some morning clouds still lingering around the trees.
Testing some customised Xfrog trees that I've been working on.


Feel free to visit my portfolio here at deviantART where you can see all pictures in high resolution.

In addition you can follow me on the Twitter, or on the Facebook.
Or click the watch button and follow me here!
All comments gratefully received.

Thank you in advance.
Charles Kirk


Technical Notes:
Created in: Vue 11 Infinite
Post Production: Photoshop CS6
Render Time: 05:23:56 (1920 x 1080) with a Quad-Core i7-3710QM CPU with 16GB RAM
Add a Comment:
 
Preview   Add Comment
love 1 1 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconpenboa:
*Penboa Feb 27, 2013
Flash Update
e-on Software's Picture of the Day on Wednesday 27th February 2013.

See Journal Entry for details.
Reply
:iconbossie-boots:
Mood: Love !bossie-boots Feb 16, 2013  Hobbyist
Wonderful :love:
Reply
:iconpenboa:
*Penboa Feb 16, 2013
Thank you very much indeed.
Reply
:iconbossie-boots:
!bossie-boots Feb 16, 2013  Hobbyist
My pleasure my friend :love:
Reply
:iconpriteeboy:
`priteeboy Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
The trees look very good :) Maybe try to get some more diversity in the models, or at least their rotation and size when being populated as I can see clusters of identical-looking trees, particularly in the left foggy area ;) But the tree models themselves are very realistic (Vue normally doesn't have great looking conifers so Xfrog is the way to go I would agree...not that I have it) and the fog looks great :)
Reply
:iconpenboa:
*Penboa Feb 12, 2013
Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.
Vue only really has a very small number of high quality trees.
Maybe we get Xfrog as a Vue plugin one day!
Reply
:iconpriteeboy:
`priteeboy Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I heard those who actually have Xfrog can load the Xfrog tree species (bought separately so you only get what you will use) can use them in Xfrog the same way Vue does with its own trees. You can "generate" an infinite number of different models of the same tree species, and import whatever ones you want into Vue. That must be really cool to have, but it's an expensive software and I've spent enough already :doh:
Reply
:iconpenboa:
*Penboa Feb 12, 2013
The Xfrog plant models are fully parametric, but you can only generate different variations of a tree species by manually changing parameters in the Xfrog software, whereas in Vue, SolidGrowth variations are generated automatically. So to generate an infinite number of different models of the same species you would need infinite time and patience;)

Getting Xfrog plant models setup in Vue so that they work EcoSystems is also quite time consuming, and because Vue saves the model within the scene file, unlike Terragen 2 which links to the model, the scene filesize rapidly becomes unmanageably large. In addition Terragen 2 seems to render Xfrog plants much faster than Vue. In Vue's favour, it can generate a mask per material, so you can change all the leaf colours post render, whereas Terragen 2 doesn't have render passes (yet).

The main advantage of XfrogPlants over other plant "generators" is they are botanically accurate, so if you want to create a scene from a real location you can use the correct species and potentially achieve a very realistic result.

I upgraded my Terragen 2 + 1300 XfrogPlants bundle to the Xfrog Volume Bundle with Xfrog 3.5 in their last sale, they also included Vue, C4D, and modo formats at no additional cost.
Reply
:iconpriteeboy:
`priteeboy Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh, that's a little different to what I expected. But still, some control is better than none. I'd like to give it a try and see what alien-looking plants I could come up with but making some dramatic changes to the plants parameters and leaf materials :plotting: Although I've one that a lot in Vue already (at least they don't need to be as realistic :XD:)

Yes I noticed only relatively recently that the biggest cause of file size expansion happened after creating an ecosystem of trees in Vue, especially since the newer, more detailed tree files are fairly big (not on their own, but if you want 5 different species in there it adds up :faint:) Terragen I notice doesn't "update" as frequently as Vue does. But when they do they make a tremendous leap. Terragen had planetary-scale renders and spectral clouds for a couple of years before Vue did. I still chose Vue though because it's easier to use ^^;
Reply
:iconfractal2cry:
~fractal2cry Feb 11, 2013
:wow: very nice work!
Reply
Add a Comment:
 
Preview   Add Comment
©2013 deviantART. All rights reserved
About Us | Contact Us | Developers | Careers | Site Tour | Help & FAQ Advertise | Premium Membership Etiquette | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Copyright Policy