Landscape and rock!!!

Landscape And Rock!! =)
10/10/2012

After a few days in Singapore doing side visit, I am now back in KL for more challenge.
Today lecture in Comp App 2 is how to make wave and rock!!!! and LAndscape.

Never knew there be a short cut, easy way of making Rock. (Hahahaha, yeah not really something but if apply in other place, that be a diff story.)
 Anyway lets get it started.

First the Wave!!!!

At first i thought it is just a cheesy way of making landscape like you know, Mountain and valley stuff but after a while i realise the potential of the wave like wave of inspiration washing over me. Hahaha.

oops dont have the picture i want. Anyway it has to share with other.

Basically it is plane which was edited into displace. then map it into wave.

from there it only take adjustment to the strength to get the desired affect.

 

For me, I rendered it into water wave with transparency.

 

The Rock

Let the Rock begin. 

Same process as the wave but this time it involved with sphere and map it with Noise.

 

A bit harder to tweet with but in the end made it not to spherical while at the same time not to weird in shape that which does not associated with rock. (Need to study in-depth in this area as it still does not have what i want yet)

 

What can i say, when one say rock, one will expect to have greyish colour for rocks.

put material on it and put it together with the water.

Rendered and the effect look nice enough. (like rock sitting on the sand)

 

Now here the interesting part, the Landscape!!!

3Dmax actually allowed one freedom to "paint" their own landscape.

basically it is plane with a lot of segment and using soft segment, i paint the area i want. red signify the highest point while blue is the lowest. after that i just "pull" it up with selected height. One thing i notice if i stop and go pulling it, the top part will continue be extrude again and again until i stop.