I’m working on finishing this project, creating K2 from GIS and bringing it from Blender to Gaea 2.3.0.1 the way it fixed the terrain after I watched your quadspinner tutorials on snowy mountains and the glacier node made it a thousand times better. I only have access to 4K right now, and cant wait to see it in full resolution.
I aim to publish a full tutorial about it soon, let me know if you find that useful.
I’d appreciate your c&c!
Cheers!
It looks good.
Have you seen this Maarten’s tuto ? :
Thank You Marc, I will now! Not sure if that was the one I watched but I need the result to look better than what I have right now.
EDIT: I checked this tutorial indeed, somehow missed the blur node in between. But Yes I based the start of the node tree on it. He has a much better result though!
Is there a way to make the icefall valley have a more dynamic movement to it, like in the screen shots?
I asked claude after trying some node combinations on my own but couldn’t get a motion blur like effect for the slow moving icefall overtime in the valley.
Maybe a better update, still have some work to do with the icefall and snow particles on the mountains.
I think the base mesh is not helping with the details as much as the native nodes since its GIS data and blender Subdiv max, but it will do for the shot I have for now.
Added a dusting node to create the small snow particles here nothing special but it gave it the look I was going for from references, I think I have a couple more things to fix but a looong way from how it started, it looked like a lump of pixelated terrain from GIS now its looking pretty good for 4k! 8-16K would look fantastic once it’s all ready with the texturing. I love this software.
Here’s a before and after:
First try rendering exported free version scale and res, but when I zoom in it doesn’t look great understandably right now. Awesome Gaea software I love it.
Next step is adding the low poly BG Karakoram range and some clouds penetrating the peak, probably more later.
c & c welcome and needed.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/251165377/K2-The-Savage-Mountain
I posted a tutorial on Youtube:
let me know if this is useful and what can be done better.
The Elbruc mountain update I have using the Glacier node and this method looks much better as a result, but let me know if there’s a mistake with my node tree setup probably can make it look better for K2 as well.
2nd part of the tutorial is up, please let me know if this is the correct place to post it.
