WIP - Cycle of hydrocarbons

[pdaley]

 

This is for my day job. It will include camera animation and some other stuff to look cool.

 

Anyone know why the background is showing through at egde on the upper left hand corner? There is a displacement map that ends right there. Could that be it?

[Zaryin]

Have no idea about your problem, but it looks awesome!

[pleavens]

VERY COOL!

 

Your displacement map is causing the gap, as you thought. You could fix this by having a band of RGB 128,128,128 that runs directly down the edge, and is feathered into the rest of the map.

 

Phil

[Grubber]

I really like the look of underwater!

But the rock looks strange, I don't that. Maybe it's just me

[pdaley]

Thanks for the comments. I'll give the 'feathering' a try, Philip.

 

What about the rocks don't you like? I tried to choose rocky patterns that would contrast a lot with each other. As far as I understand, rock formations do occur more or less in slabs like I show here. Maybe not so smooth, but I'm just generalizing.

[Paul Forwood]

Hey, Paul, that's really nice.

 

How about a tiny little sub, or diver, or anything that will give a reference for scale?

Or is that not allowed?

[pdaley]

There may be an oil rig in there soon...but which kind to choose? There are so many models to pick from! (really)