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• Rflong7 Posts: 36,588 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Hi, Ouerbacker
  
  It looks Fabulous! :thumbup:

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Rflong7 wrote:

  Hi, Ouerbacker
  
  It looks Fabulous! :thumbup:

  
  thanks

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• aminovas Posts: 1,523 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  This is stunning. It reminds me of Wyoming.
  
  Ouerbacker, I'm a big fan of your worlds. Your landscape shaping and painting verges on photorealistic.

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• MIss_Sophie Posts: 107 New Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  I agree with aminovas, I love your worlds! You have a true artist talent

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• tammyjo329 Posts: 2,747 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Looks lovely :thumbup: :thumbup:

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  thanks everyone
  
  Since my previous color palette for this world was quite over-saturated, I thought it would be nice to tone it down a bit.
  
  Aside from the green, which might be lightened, this should be the final batch of colors.
  
  
  
  Also, I'm considering the thought of renaming it Pumice valley, as its current name doesn't really relay the world's high desert theme. What do you all think?
  

  Post edited by Unknown User on August 2013

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• thetideschanging Posts: 250 New Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Looks stunning your terrain painting is brilliant!

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• Nilxis Posts: 596 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  I totally agree, the new colors look very realistic.
  What a wonderful world!

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• aminovas Posts: 1,523 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Ouerbacker wrote:

  Also, I'm considering the thought of renaming it Pumice valley, as its current name doesn't really relay the world's high desert theme. What do you all think?

  
  I like Pumice Valley! It reminds me also of Southern California along the Nevada border, and there is a lot of pumice there
  
  Also, you make your own distant terrains, right? With blender? Any chance you know of a good tutorial? I've tried to follow a few without much success. Your terrains have such natural sculpting, do you use some kind of program to generate the weathering of the landscape?

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• will2586 Posts: 3,863 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Looks a lot better! I think Pumice Valley would suit it, sounds like something that would be in a desert-ish region.
  
  I really like the new terrain paints, and the sculpting and painting of the mountains is impeccable! I'm so excited for this world!

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Thanks everyone
  
  I added a few new images to the first post.
  
  
  
  
  

  Also, you make your own distant terrains, right?

  
  yes
  

  With blender?

  
  partially. For me, I'm just using it to put a hole in the distant terrain mesh, map the texture, and convert everything over to a sims 3 file format.
  

  Any chance you know of a good tutorial?

  
  There aren't any that are particularly made for dts, but I would recommend the one linked below as it supplies almost every step that I needed for the blender part.
  
  http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:Creating_An_End_Table_In_Blender_2.5_Part_1#Step_1
  
  
  

  Your terrains have such natural sculpting, do you use some kind of program to generate the weathering of the landscape?

  
  On all of my previous worlds, I stuck to hand painting and sculpting. For this one, however, a program called World Machine was used for the majority of these things. From comparing Ea's painting to that of this world, my best guess is that they also use this tool, as a similar erosion style is evident in each.

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• junceda Posts: 2,614 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Very nice world, and the new colours are gorgeous, they mess together perfectly

  
  
  I can play at last TS2 TS3 and TS4 So great that toddlers are here!!!

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• Evalen Posts: 10,223 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Love your colors of your world.
  very warm and inviting.

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• aminovas Posts: 1,523 Member

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Ouerbacker wrote:

  On all of my previous worlds, I stuck to hand painting and sculpting. For this one, however, a program called World Machine was used for the majority of these things. From comparing Ea's painting to that of this world, my best guess is that they also use this tool, as a similar erosion style is evident in each.

  
  World Machine -- yes, thank you! You just made my day. I did not know if anyone was using it for the Sims. I am a real beginner with all of this, but I was researching how to create landscape weathering in DEMs and came across World Machine a few months ago. I've downloaded it and messed with it a bit without too much success, but enough to get the idea. I just need to pursue it, and knowing that you have had success with it (and have produced this amazing landscape) is plenty of motivation. Thank you so much for this info and I will check out the tutorial. A lot of this goes way over my head but I'd like to at least try and figure it out.

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  A few new images
  
  If the images seem to prematurely cut off along their right sides, they will need to be right clicked on and opened in a new tab to be fully viewed. Just clicking on each should also work.
  
  
  A sunset
  
  
  
  A desert-ish house
  <a href="http://s1231.photobucket.com/user/Ouerbacker/media/Screenshot-30_zps0a557986.jpg.html&quot; target="_blank"><img src="http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee510/Ouerbacker/Screenshot-30_zps0a557986.jpg&quot; border="0" alt=" photo Screenshot-30_zps0a557986.jpg"/></a>
  
  
  and a night ini that isn't too dark, bright, or colorful.
  

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• carla70 Posts: 575 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  Looks good. Love how the mountains look so realistic.

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• YellowJane Posts: 6,589 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  Nice! Well done you should be real proud

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• citytube Posts: 458 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  :shock: Wow...so pretty and I love the sculpting. It reminds me of home. I am waiting for this to be done. Very nice.

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• Smidgieroo3 Posts: 457 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  Beautiful! I can't wait to see more!

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• rchristison Posts: 129 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  :shock: This looks stunning!! Amazing work!

  Origin ID - OrtwinOmaar

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• flstrider Posts: 1,912 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  On all of my previous worlds, I stuck to hand painting and sculpting. For this one, however, a program called World Machine was used for the majority of these things. From comparing Ea's painting to that of this world, my best guess is that they also use this tool, as a similar erosion style is evident in each.

  
  Does this mean you use world machine for your terrain painting as well? I just downloaded it and understand how to get the heightmaps for the sculpting but is there a way to do the painting in WM as well? yes still learning about this.

  My World's thread linked in Sig
  
  
  
  

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  
  

  Does this mean you use world machine for your terrain painting as well?

  For the most part, yes.
  

  I just downloaded it and understand how to get the heightmaps for the sculpting but is there a way to do the painting in WM as well?
  yes still learning about this.

  
  There is a way for world machine to create the needed greyscale maps for terrain paint. As you are having trouble with this, I would recommend looking at the "adding flow" section of this tutorial.
  
  http://wiki.splashdamage.com/index.php/An_Advanced_Terrain_and_Megatexture
  
  

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• flstrider Posts: 1,912 Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  Thanks Ouerbacker ..... This will be a big help I love the results you have with Pumice Valley and I hope I can learn more to get results this good.

  My World's thread linked in Sig
  
  
  
  

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  thanks for the comments everyone.
  
  Here are a few pics that show off the improved vegetation.
  
  Sometime in the future, I'm going to have to stop being lazy and resize my screenshots. Till then, click on each for the full picture.
  
  Also, sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. If the images look full and like they're all there, there is no need to click on them.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Ouerbacker Posts: 301 New Member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  If anyone wants it, here's an updated beta version.
  
  http://www.mediafire.com/download/io7m4xwne3lli0x/uploadPumicevallry.rar

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