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Jungle bridges

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Trees, water, steel walkways ... just another rainforest scene.


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Dimensions:
640 x 480 x 24-bit [69K]
Date:
10.05.1998
Scene file size:
3650K
Render time:
n/a
Platform:

Applications:
Bryce 3D Photoshop 4.0.1

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Comments:

I made a walkway for another image, decided I liked it and duplicated it twice with the idea of making a kind of mechanical, industrial scene. The idea was to have the scene lit from above by shafts of light filtered through a grid. This didn't really work, so I tried using a foliage texture as a texture gel.

The tree trunks are terrains, built loosely according to the principles described in Jonathon Allen's forest tutorial (loosely because I didn't have a copy to hand when I was making the scene). The hanging vines or mosses are symmetric lattices with a foliage texture applied. The lattices are based on threadlike structures output from KPT Texture Explorer, a technique which didn't really work very well. A better and simpler solution might just have been to hand-paint them.

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