Sailing

[Roken]

After knocking this together very quickly for the weekly challenge, I’ve decided to continue with it.

I have, by and large, eliminated the problem of grass growing out of rocks (there are still a couple, but much better). To do this I did an orthographic top view render of just the ground plane and the rocks, the ground with a black diffuse and the rocks with white, took it into gimp, inverted the colours and cranked up the contrast, and used that image as a density texture for the grass.

Also done some work on the ground plane texture itself, and altered the composition slightly to follow the golden triangle.

More to do.

[clockmender]

Nice, but - all the rocks have flat tops - this is my only criticism that this would not be the case in reality.

Nice picture composition and a nice idea.

Cheers, Clock.

[Gumboots]

@clockmender

Nice, but - all the rocks have flat tops - this is my only criticism that this would not be the case in reality.

Ahem.

It is a cool little picture, but I agree the rocks could use a bit of love. Maybe just another subdivision would make them more like normal river rocks?

[Roken]

Thanks for the comments both. You are right that the rocks are in need of more work. Something for the weekend.

[clockmender]

@Gumboots

Ahem.

He doesn’t have hexagonal black rocks in a regular pattern though…

Cheers, Clock.

[Roken]

Update

[Roken]

And another tweak.

[clockmender]

Much better!

Cheers, Cock.

[Roken]

Thank you. You have no idea how much time I spent on the normal map for the ground, tweaking and flipping.

Oh, and the addition of wildlife (if you noticed). Not mine, though I may remesh, original courtesy of trixiemay on Blendswap.