JuWeiFan
Wang

FX Artist

Week2 Height Field Texture

Update: 6/17/23

Professor's suggestion Base on the week 1 result

Base on the suggestion, I lower the central mountain and add the detail from rocky mountains for reference of sharp peaks

The first one and second one is the mainly reference I followed.

Reference

Process

use clip to have base shape

Add details on the mountainside

node(click for detail)

Layer node to add sharp peak

node(click for detail)

Blur the hard edge

Erode again

scale down and convert to geo

Process Part 1
Camera movement

Anchor 1

Camera movement setting (shot one)

Camera Rotation

Camera Transform

Sphere animation Setting

Sphere move track

Sphere animation setting

I set the camera and sphere animation like this, because I want the speed of the red ball gradually increases until it hits the mountain. About the camera is exactly the opposite way which can increase the feeling that the sphere is speed up.

Result

The red ball represents the movement trajectory and size of the water god (Afterwards, I will add particles and smoke around him, so he won't be as small and monotonous as he looks)

with camera

without camera

Anchor 2

Process Part 2
Height Field Texture mask

check UV is correct

river bed mask

About texture mask I plan create 1.river bed 2. sediment 3. dirt 4. mossy 5. rock 6. snow

At present, this is my plan, and I may make further adjustments based on the actual situation in the future

the river I don't want it has the soft edge and I like what I had, so I use the wrangle to make the soft edge from 0< soft edge < 1 become 1 (the riverbed mask is the attribute that I make)

before

after

Next is to blur the sediment and debris mask from erode node (Remove graininess）

before

before

after

after

After adjust the different mask I will base on this mask to add my own mask by vop node.

sediment

I use the fit range to make the mask more clear

rock

Determine the distribution of stones texture by calculating the degree of the y-axis of the normal, the central mountain I don't want to include all of that. So I may need to fix that use attribute paint later.

mossy and dirt

mossy

dirt

snow

Right now I finish the mask procedurally, then I will adjust them manually.

after I assign the texture to the height field I will base on the result and reference adjust again.

Manually Adjustment

mossy

dirt

rock

snow

Lighting (Shot one)

overview

shot one

Anchor 3

Process Part 2
Height Field Texture

Reference (grass and rock(mountain))

grass and rocks but mainly the grass

base on the reference I found four textures and to see what is the best option (after testing I chose the second one as all the texture's base and first one as the mossy texture)

render to check the result (need change uv)

before

after UV scale 35

after UV scale 45

displacement too much

displacement 0.25

Add mossy layer

the first one looks like too green don't look like reference{darker and little bit yellow or grey}(displacement 0.5)

better but little too dark

little too green

Add rock layer

the final one

grass and rocks but mainly the rocks(mountain)

the color is close to the snow

beter

still little white

Final 1

Final 2

for me I like this one, cause it not too yellow and close to the reference

Final 3

I think this one also look great in different style. and also to the reference

meanwhile will make the snow stand out more

I will decide what texture I will use between Final2 and Final3

Add dirt layer

this mask is the transition between the rock and grass

reference is the dark part

too dark

too bright

more natural but still dark

like this feeling but the pattern repeat Too obvious

after try different texture I had to adjust the base layer texture's gamma.

So far, I think this transition is the most natural

Add snow layer

cause the snow is pure white and the distance is far away so the texture is not that important

Add river bed layer

Because the riverbed texture will used in the third shot, In shot one the riverbed is still a hill, so the element about riverbed need to be decrease, but it still need to be look like the riverbed.