And three more way of combining.
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mountains new test3-overlay.jpg
mountains new test3-value.jpg
Okay, so I'm playing a little with mountains, trying to find the right method. Like Joe before me, I'll offer a few pics and see what people's thoughts are.
mountains new test4.jpg
The traditional version of RobA's overland map tutorial.
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RobA's mountain tutorial.
mountains new test2.jpg
One way of combining the two
mountains new test3-hue.jpg
And another...
And three more way of combining.
mountains new test3-lighten.jpg
mountains new test3-overlay.jpg
mountains new test3-value.jpg
They all look interesting, but none of the new methods break up the mountain ridges. Since the ridges are so isolated they look unique or unnatural. They'd make great mountains for something like the boarders of Mordor where some sort of magic threw them up They look like some sort of Ginormous Chinese character you could see from space.
What happens if you impose one image on the other after a rotation or flip? Something to spread out the ridges and make it seem more like an irregular mound.
Sigurd
Last edited by Sigurd; 06-16-2008 at 12:36 AM.
OK-
Here is something I am working on.... The steps are all the same. The only difference is the start point. And this required NO "artistic ability" or hand painting/touch-up. There are still a few artifacts I am trying to figure out how to eliminate...
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Hmm. I'll have to keep working, it seems. I don't perfectly like any of the results, as yet. I guess it will just take more fiddling to find something that still looks good!
Beautiful, naturally! You have real talent!
I'm still not quite sure how you do those long snaking range ridgelines. They do bear somewhat of a resemblance to what they actually look like from sat-photos (although I also think sat photos of mountains look peculiar, but you capture that in a good way!)
Hmm.. well, in this case, I just used the same technique you used based on RobA's tutorial. I am currently working on another variation of the samething, but in this one, I just(going off of memory):
- create a transparent layer
- filled a random selection with a 50% gray
- using a med brush set to high jitter, draw some white very squiggly lines (these are going to be the valleys in the picture)
- Noise around 20-30px
- Blur perhaps 10-20 px. You want to maintain a small bit of the pixelation but not too much.
- new transparent layer
- using the same technique you used draw your mountains on the new layer in the mostly empty areas between the blurred white/gray lines of the layer below.
- use the smudge tool to clean up some of the hard lines on the edges of your mountains will help it blend in below.
- merge down and bump map the whole thing.
I am also working a lot with the smudge/airbrush tool to try to get some vertical ridgelines, clefts, etc. while maintaining the "point" of most of the ridges. In a few places, I intentionally smudge the white of the ridge line to make not all of the mountain tops pointy.
Joe
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That definitely looks like satellite mountains to me!
-Rob A>
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