Soliciting artistic help please!

[helpdesk]

Here are a couple of images of my latest efforts...I rendered these out (1.5 million polys 10hrs 20 mins)to 150 dpi 40" x20" then resampled up in PS for a 200 dpi 5 footer.
I am not satisfied with the Shore line RIP RAP. I don't know how best to handle the Displacement mapping yet to get a good shoreline. It looks like carmelcorn to me.



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Thanks for the critique and advice!

Dave

[RE:FORM_STUDIOS]

Looks good.

The sea wall could do with either blending between rocky / sandy or an easier approach would be to build a low wall between the rocks and the sand.... assuming the shore is manmade.

[olitech]

these might help

for revetment wall

for shoreline

Just right click to save

[RE:FORM_STUDIOS]

oooh... nice shoreline texture! Thanks for that!

[olitech]

My pleasure, enjoy!
Really helps to blur the shoreline..especially where your water plane hits...just make sure to post your results!

[Da_elf]

hehe i could have used that on my xmas card

[helpdesk]

olitech....Thanks for the textures....not sure how to use them though.
my shore line is just a displacement map...Thats why it dosent look so great. I took my contours and made a terrain, Then detached the polys that I wanted for the rocky shoreline to another object group. I just can't get anything to look the way I really had hoped for?
I tried uv mapping faces..then box...nothing really helpful. Then I used normals and that is how I got what I have now.

[jaggos]

Hi Helpdesk
in the begining you said that you rendered your images to 150dpi how do you that in max? I mean how can you change the dpi. I always wondered how the dpi can be changed in max.
cheers

[joconnell]

You cant in max - only by opening in ps afterwards and using the image size command. You have to use the (print width x dpi = horizontal pixels + print height x dpi = vertical pixels) formula to work out the amount of pixels you need and then render that.

[helpdesk]

When you save out the image from the frame buffer...you have a choice, when using tif format on rez, color, etc.