Nature Environment Question

[hunter_williams]

True. I ended up using the Ocean Sim preset in Phoenix FD with the OceanTexture.

[damaggio]

Thanks, I was just curious , haven't used it.

[hunter_williams]

Does Sun and Sky have distance fog or do I need to add that manually?

[damaggio]

You can use Environment Fog from the Volumetrics menu or add an Aerial Perspective that is designed to work with the Physical Sun Systaem( That is better if you have a land mass/ coastline in the far distance)

[damaggio]

Physical Sun System.

[hunter_williams]

Oh damaggio I'm glad you answered. You shared a render of a plane flowing over terrain. How did you texture that landscape?

I need to make some terrain and was curious about your workflow.

[damaggio]

Take a read at the whole post, there's a lot of explanations and images there that might help you.

[hunter_williams]

So most of your texturing setup was done in Gaea or World Creator and imported into Maya?

[damaggio]

The masks were extracted from World Machine and then used in a Vray Blend material, the high resolution textures are from Google Maps and stitched up and touched up in Photoshop and they were tiled.The Aerial Perspective is essential on environments like that.

[hunter_williams]

That makes sense. Thanks.

[hunter_williams]

Has anybody ever tried this for scattering foilage/trees?

https://www.envitscript.com/

Edit: Disregard, there isn't support for V-Ray yet.