BEST landscape boulders ?

urgen

by urgen, moai.skp+Artlantis Studio 2.0.2.1

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blajnov

by urgen, moai.skp+Artlantis Studio 2.0.2.1

Iglesias

Hello, here you are three boulders one tree and seamless Asturian grass texture.
The rock texture is seamless. It is made of a photograph near the Cantabrian sea, near my home.
Ejoy

boulders.skp

lapx

Looking for a good workflow for creating a stacked limestone wall. Any ideas would be helpful. I started off with basic shape as rectangle. Is there a ruby script to select and make square somewhat irregular at the edges?

Stone in background was done by fillet block ruby and then subdivided for editing by scaling.

Ross Macintosh

Just thought I'd add that the boulder techniques can be used to create landscapes too...

I attach an old quickie I made using Alan's trike and boy from Formfonts. The big rock is a very low poly model with a large texture image applied to it.

Regards, Ross

remus

Whres the pic/component ross?

boofredlay

Nice image Ross

remus

Indeed that does look very good, the scene reminds me of the beach...apart form the trike

david_h

I have had my own fun making rocks. . . .thanks for the technique. rendering not so great. . .but hey

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solo

David,

I see you are getting into sub-smooth, there are a few new tools like 'UV tools' that can map your textures pretty well these days in SU.
If you use bumps and/or displacement you can create some really cool rock textures too.
I saw on another thread you enquiring about flower beds, Clipmaps will work on one view only (unless you are up to moving each on individually as 'face me' will not suffice)so I suggest modeling some low poly flowers (mapping the textures right) and using them as components.

Here is a basic idea of different rock textures and some plants arranged as a rock bed. Rendered with Vue 6 xstream.

Iglesias

Very beautiful composition. I like it very much

david_h

@solo said:

David,

I see you are getting into sub-smooth, there are a few new tools like 'UV tools' that can map your textures pretty well these days in SU.
If you use bumps and/or displacement you can create some really cool rock textures too.
I saw on another thread you enquiring about flower beds, Clipmaps will work on one view only (unless you are up to moving each on individually as 'face me' will not suffice)so I suggest modeling some low poly flowers (mapping the textures right) and using them as components.

Thanks solo. . .as usual. . .I think I have UV tools. .. I just don't know what to do with them. . .I guess I need to play around with thos alittle bit more. I have so many rubies in my files it's hard to keep track of them all.
Thanks for you input on the flower beds too.

EDIT p.s. I do have UV tools. .. .I have no idea what it does. . .

david_h

oka--this is getting to be like "look what I did in school today Mommy" .. .but i have played around with the UV tools. . ..(thanks Solo) . . .and now I am starting to get it. okay .. it takes me a while. . .

anyway. .thse are starting to look better. . .not like stupid dinosaur eggs or something. n'est-ce pas?

neoshed

Pardon my ignorance but where would I find the UV tools?

Gaieus

Here you are
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=10404

EarthMover

I thought I'd add a collection of boulders I made a while back. They could use some retexturing, but the shapes are there. I used FFD on a sphere.

Boulders.zip

lz2008

thanks！！

lz2008

I like it very much!!!

utiler

@unknownuser said:

Thanks solo. . .as usual. . .I think I have UV tools. .. I just don't know what to do with them. . .I guess I need to play around with thos alittle bit more. I have so many rubies in my files it's hard to keep track of them all.
Thanks for you input on the flower beds too.

EDIT p.s. I do have UV tools. .. .I have no idea what it does. . .

I need to do this too, Dave, I drool over Pete's work!!!!
Best make some time at big lunch to have a play....

BTM

my personal way of making boulders uses a rectangle, zorro, FFD, catmull-clark, polyreduce, and then texturing.

I make the rectangle, then I use zorro to add more organic subdivisions ( not uniform squares), then FFD to morph it, catmull-clark to get rid of some sharp edges (if you want), then polyreduce to lower the... well... polycount (if that's a real word). Then I texture it with U.V. tools or projected textures, and result:

I've got pics of the steps too, but can't post them here yet.