Hello,

I've been reworking an earlier post "A Shore Scene" ... it's still a work in 
progress. Feedback on the first version prompted a change in the terrain ... 
thanks Thomas for that feedback, The foreground and background are made from 
the same heightfield ... just different scaling with the foreground 
overlaying the background. I think it gives the scene the depth it was 
missing. The background terrain looks a bit like a low tide area.

The sky/clouds .... well I departed from my concentric sphere's approach and 
decided to have a look at make_clouds from Gilles Trans' website. Not 
wanting to totally plagiarize his work I decided to download and use his df3 
files. I wrote my own macro with enough parameters to start (trial and 
error) looking for the best looking clouds I could. If anyone is interested 
I could relate some of what I found out ... for now I won't go into that for 
the sake of being brief.

I want to keep the dory, but I'm not really sure what to do next. I'm 
thinking for balance the scene needs something midground. A dock and fishing 
shack or cattails and reeds? ..... both? I know you folks have plenty of 
ideas .... so what do you think?

Jim

BTW: this scene was rendered with default AA and test quality radiosity .... 
so pardon the jaggies.

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