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[D M]

( .. inspired by Randys' 'Site Terrain' posting)

 

The choppy water is the 'property', .. with multiple upon multiple clusters of shot points with various elevations

The property 'texture' is a downloaded water image from the hundreds that appear with a Google ^TM search

I use a very large repeat dimensions for some of the textures, .. sometimes 10's of feet.. to whatever result suits my eye at the time

The white water close to shore is made from 3D polygons, .. zig-zag/lightning bolt shapes staggered from each other

A couple of these are renamed as another 'solid' so I could weave in some streaks of darker water through the shot points

 

The landscape is comprised of four rocks from 3D Warehouse (imported as symbols) allowing for four distinct texture variations

The rock symbols are scaled to various sizes and in some cases stretched to smooth them out and offset up or down to suit

 

The lighthouse is a 3D Warehouse download, .. the buildings I made with Sketchup^TM   Make.

I imported it as a SP symbol 3 times under 3 different symbol names so I could use different colors for each

 

The beams of light are stretched wedges with low opacity .. can't rotate 'cones' in V2014, .. at least not that I'm aware of

 

..  and the ship is also a 3D warehouse download.

 

 

[Jim Crook]

Very impressive indeed :-)

[Keith Almond]

Awesome .... I am constantly amazed at the work some of you are producing. It wouldn't surprise me if sometimes the Developers are saying "I didn't know it could do that!".

[randolph cohn]

super douglas.  we'll have to talk sometime.

 

rpcdesign@aol.com

 

put "softplan site terrain"  in subject line

 

and maybe we can discuss what we know and don't know.

 

we can do a "go-to-meeting" and maybe a few of

us can have meeting about softplan.

[D M]

Thanks for all the kind comments, .. : )

 

I should add a few more points, ..

For the purposes of rendering these pictures, I am working at enormous scales.

 

My Workspace Limit is set at 20000’ x 20000’ (for this painting),

and you can see that my Property is close to that size as well. It’s also 750’ deep

The expanse of property allows for those multiple clusters of shot points to create the waves,

And the huge depth allows a greater range for up and down offsets for positioning the objects.

Rocks in particular in this case.

The man-made objects (buildings, ship) are of grossly huge size,

.. they are not scaled to suit actual human proportions

All objects are visually scaled to suit how they fit with each other in the picture

The Lighthouse itself is 600’ high and the houses are scaled up to be 500’+ x 300’+ and 290’ high

The Rocks are also huge, .. the rectangular ones are 2700’ x 2800’ x 700’ high (give or take), ..

The ‘light beam’ wedges themselves (the longest one) are some 14400’ long with heights from 2’ to 450’

 

These large scales also allow for a greater ‘play range’ in the aspect ratio of textures, ..

The water texture on the ocean is tiled at 1700’ x 1700’, .. yet the texture on the cliff rocks is only about 20” or so, .. the water texture jpeg I used was a fairly small image (pixel wise), the rock jpeg was I think 2500 pixels by 1600, .. so its tiling could remain smaller

 

The attached image shows the construction of the ‘picture’ under ‘Site Mode’

 

Hope that explains a bit more to those interested.

 

 

Doug

 

[Keith Almond]

To be honest, those figures make it even more impressive.

[randolph cohn]

i play with site every once in a while to hone my terrain modelling skills.

 

how about a snow scene ?

 

left click on image to enlarge.

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[Keith Almond]

Does Marin County get Snow?

[randolph cohn]

i think it got 1/4" one day .

 

https://www.pinteres...arin-county-ca/

[Joseph Smith]

Marin County is beautiful, can't wait to visit again....and drink coffee at Randy's.

[Brad Graber]

a 1/4" of snow going up the road to Randy's house would be devastating.  I didn't realize Indiana was so flat until I visited Randy a few years back.

[randolph cohn]

ok, you made me post my view of the north san francisco bay

looking east from my deck 

 

 

you know the old saying  "someone has to live here"