Landscape Scene Setup

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Hi Jason,

In this case, provided that you line up the landscape objects properly, I think you can eliminate those seams by placing the landscapes in a Connect Object.

Personally I would do this sort of thing with subpolygon displacement instead of using the primitives. In this example I’ve created a quick circular landscape by way of the layer shader, which works similar to PS. https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/circular%20mtns%20displace.c4d

[Ronaldo Montalvo]

that’s very cool adam, thanks for posting that. it’s a very interesting layer shader that creates that bryce-like mountain range. do you have any tips or clues as to how to create a shader that would respond to the height of the diplacement, ie the higher diplaced areas would be white sno-capped the lower levels darker colors, the floor a desert tan for instance. is there a special trick or would you maybe use a multi-color gradient that is mapped on the Y direction somehow?

[Adam Trachtenberg]

You could use a simple height gradient, but that will just give you basic color values. I’d use another layer shader with different 3D gradients as layer masks, as well as using a falloff shader as a layer mask to set color based on slope. Here’s the same file but with color info. added. doing something similar in the bump channel would add a lot to the effect.

https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/circular%20mtns%20displace_0001.c4d

[Ronaldo Montalvo]

that works great adam. just got C4D 11.5 recently and wasn’t aware of the diplacement deformer that you used on the plane which lets you see the diplacement shader’s effect on the mesh without rendering. what a useful addition that is. thanks again for sharing all that info.

[Chris Priddy]

What size texture did you use for this? I’m assuming you just used Ps?

[Chris Priddy]

Better yet, is there a step by step showing how to utilize the layers of the layered displacement somehwere? I googled for a bit and didn’t come up with much.