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Small detailed terrain

Postby AlesK » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:53 am

Hello,
how to make terrain with small area, but huge in detail? I would use a normal map with great detail.
I am not the creator of video games, but I'm doing 3D animations(using Cinema 4D R14 and Blender), so I'm "not" limited resolution.
Maybe 24 gigabytes of RAM should be sufficient.
I tried to set a great resolution and small scale. (0.00001), high resolution for normal map, but the result is still not good. Still a large area with low detail.
When I set a medium resolution and huge resolution for normal maps, so I generate normal maps instead of vertical stripes. That is strange.
I am confused because L3DT use only one day. :)
I thought that would be generated terrain could go crop and regenerate the selected (small) area(EDIT: i find Crop function).
I do not know ... please advice.

Thank you very much

(sorry for my google english) :)

Around this result I want to achieve:
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Problem with High-res normals for small area(with beta version):
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Re: Small detailed terrain

Postby AlesK » Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:45 pm

He slowly coming as to how to work with it. :) I wish I never found a comprehensive videotutorial and introduction of workflow. Everywhere is just a simple automatic terrain for video games.
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Re: Small detailed terrain

Postby Aaron » Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:26 pm

Hi Alesk,

Oops, sorry for the stripy normals map. I made some changes in that beta release, and one of them broke the high-res normals maps. I've fixed that in the latest build, which is available now (v14.10 dev build 1). I don't have much time right now, but I'll try to answer your questions about high resolution terrains in the coming few days. Sorry for the delay.

Best regards,
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Re: Small detailed terrain

Postby AlesK » Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:36 pm

Thank you for quick fix the error! While trying different variations, but without much success. I thought the normal map should render the smallest details(erosion, cracks ..), it is still not doing well. For rendering using Cinema 4D render, or Octane render (height map + normal map). That should give good results, but unfortunately normal map is not as detailed as I would like. Details are blurred, so it looks just like the bitmap enlarged.
I discovered i "node editor", but yet I do not know how to use it...

I'll wait until you have time. So far, thank you! :wink:
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Re: Small detailed terrain

Postby ShadowIce » Mon Dec 01, 2014 12:40 am

How did you make this? Is there an easy-to-use guide for achieving this type of high definition quality?
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