"Samuel B." <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A landscape sketch. The hills are height fields, and the plants are a single
> mesh made in Blender, duplicated a number of times. The scene was rendered with
> UberPOV using no_cache radiosity and scattering media. Total rendering time in
> POV-Ray was 7 minutes, 31 seconds. Denoising and vignette are care of Blender,
> and the final gamma and contrast were adjusted in IrfanView.
>
> I'm fairly happy with the plants, but the land objects really need some work...
> I want overhangs and high detail, but not the render times associated with
> isosurfaces... So, I guess the other best option would be sculpted meshes ':/
>
> Sam


Nice work. Lighting, plants, and hills look very natural. I agree it's hard to
get the look of undercuts with a height field. Maybe just some mid-range rocks
or rougher terrain at the base of the hills?

>> So, I guess the other best option would be sculpted meshes ':/

There's some 'Megascans' style libraries out there - some free. Quixel has some
great models with even greater poly counts. :)

If you do sculpt some topo/rock forms in Blender, I'd be interested in your
process. I haven't modeling natural forms in Blender other than blobs.

I assume rendering time grow as triangles increase?  It's been a while sense
I've work with mesh in POV.
Mike.

https://quixel.com/megascans/home?search=rock&search=cliff&type=3D%20asset&environment=tundra%20biome&assetId=wd4icipcb

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