Welcome, to the first TIF-speed render

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the deal. This game is played over at another site I visit, teranuts. The basic idea of it, is every weekend someone start's a contest. They make and upload a terrain, and then post it. They also come up with a theme. At the end of the weekend (sunday) everyone will vote, and after tallying the votes, we find the winner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The winner than does the same thing next weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The basic rules:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* You cannot alter the terrain

 

 

 

* Water height no more than 0

 

 

 

{Amend to water hight set by challenge}

 

 

 

* 800 x 600 max size

 

 

 

{amend to for posting, max render size 1280x960}

 

 

 

* No postwork other than file conversion

 

 

 

{amend?}

 

 

 

* You must notify that you are going to enter when you download the terrain

 

 

 

* atm's, srf's, and textures ARE allowed but they must be your own

 

 

 

* For those who are registered, use of EBD (Extra Blended Detail) and "Ultra" is NOT allowed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The amend's are just excpetions. For postwork, you are allowed simple things. I.E, Sharpening, perhaps a boarder. The waterr is determained by the person who post's the theme/terrain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, I will start this off. If it goes well, and we get people doing this and having fun, I will continue. I personaly may not enter in these competions. This is my way of trying to help everyone. It seems competion helps a lot of people. Also, if people don't like uploading terrains, then I can easily just do a new one each week, for practice. You all can decide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The terrain: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=37J4EUM8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Theme: A summer/fall theme. Basicly, nice greens and yellows. The terrain is a clasic, as in, it's one of my most overused terrains ever :) so it's fairly easy to work with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE FUN! and just a note for those confused, this is terragen. you can get it at http://www.planetside.co.uk

This isn't a bad idea, but I think strong post-alterations should be aloud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think this has already been mentioned, but I'll say it again. The program can get some nice results alone, but it's really limited (especially without your own terrain).

 

 

 

With paintings, colour adjustments, additions, etc. we can get some potentially fantastic (and very unique & original) results, unlike those we would usually expect from terragen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, this would have to have huge limitations, like no stock planets or downloaded resources allowed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking forward to entering in this. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS: Does the terrain come with it's own texture map?

The idea is to make it so it's equal. Not everyone has photoshop, so it's unfair to have someone be able to make a much better image with a lot of post processing. I mean, color changes, sharpening, ect. are fine, but don't go too intensive there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, the terrain is just a hightmap, so you need to do you own surface/atmosphere/ect. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: I agree with you on the photoshop part, maybe i'll do a few speed renders that allow you to fully use photoshop, but i'm going to start with some basics right now :D

Count me in, i need some practice with my terragen. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so we just texture it, add clouds/atmosphere/camera veiw etc... and teh person who does it the best wins?

Exactly. voting will start on Sunday at 12:00 PM (umm... at the time i'm posting this its 12:49 AM, so adjust acordingly). the one with the most votes wins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also, make sure you pertain to the topic. I.E, don't make a winter image when this theme is summer/fall :D

one last question... are we allowed to have water over 0m? just a bit confused. :?

Unless I say otherwise, the max is 0 :)

So..Is WM allowed?(I'd guess that takes out all chances of using water tho....)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J272

for fun. :) Maybe i'll win by default or something...

 

 

 

So..Is WM allowed?(I'd guess that takes out all chances of using water tho....)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J272

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WM is only used for terrains, so no, it won't be of any use to you :)

yay, my go 8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it's not very good... but

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and venomai, is ur water above 0?

Hehe Count me in ill post shortly!

and venomai, is ur water above 0?

 

 

 

Nope, it's right at 0. Not that it matters though, I think I cropped out all my water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There goes my chances of winning by default. :P

heh :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

voting will start tonight probaly.

Hello heres my entry. I actually like the way it turned out! :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

render - 1280 x 960 resize to 800 x 600

 

 

 

Render time - Forgot 30-60 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes waterlevel is exactly at 0.

Nice atmo aldeon :D

thanks....now when does the voting begin?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and Nuzza I don't think you changed the water level. Because your scene is close to where mines at i think..... If you didn't the default level is something around the likes of -200m

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also i think you should work on the atmosphere some, and your surface maps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I actually kinda like venomai's landscape!

Voting can start now...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to vote for Aldeon this week, love those rays.

i vote for myself....hehe. You should amend(add to) the first post after every weekend including all the entries and to either post votes or pm them. Then when the next contest starts delete it and start again

Im entering :)

mate your to late voting has already started.. i guess there will be a next game soon. sign up for that.