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My Nocuous Cross

Made with Bryce

Created by richter

Well, here's my lil' "walkthrough" on how I made my Nocuous Cross. There was a new version of Apophysis available, so I was anxious to try it out. I made a 2k *.png texture, which later mapped onto a Bryce terrain with the same resolution (2048x). With Photoshop I desaturated the texture in order to make a bump-map. I used it both for the bump channel and to create the bryce terrain. This way I get a double effect for the bump and slightly more 3d-ish look (the terrain was fairly low as height btw). The crystals, vines and the barbed wire are maya paint effects I converted to polygons and imported and textured in Bryce. The Cross was modelled in maya. The scene was lit by "Japan_subway2_FINAL.hdr" with linear falloff, Q-16, Int-10, hdri fx-10, rad-30. Since the apophysis png texture was transparent enough and the hdr backdrop was visible, I needed to place a pure-black cube beneath the terrain. The scene was rendered without shadows, because I didn't really need them.