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Melenkurion
Impression from the book Fatal Revenant, the 2nd book of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson. 3-1/4 years after I read the 1st book, see http://www.bryce5.com/details.php?image_id=1452 Here, Linden Avery is Victoria 3 from DAZ, standing in a cavern in Melenkurion Skyweir, beholding the waterfall that mixes with Earthblood to form the Black River flowing through Garroting Deep. Technically, the waterfall is made from 2 self drawn terrains surrounded by a flattened cylinder and lit by 5 radials. The staff with the Earthlight is selfmade. The scene is lit by the Firecube HDRI I made from an artwork of David. If you're curious: The name "Melenkurion" is usually attributed to the highest mountain in The Land. In fact, this name appears in the first adventure game ever: "Colossal Cave" by Will Crowther 1976, programmed in Fortran for the PDP-10/KA (Digital Equipment Corp).
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Perhaps the transparency is the issue. Lava I am guessing would be dense and impossible to see through. I consider liquid metal being processed and poured and I defiently feel that the metal can seems light as water becasue it can splash and all, yet it is so glowing that any tranparency seems to be baked out. I certainly have never attempted lava, so I could not iffer you any experiences on the subject.
Thank you all for you kind comments. The lava is strange, it is a terrain all right and 99.6% transparent like water, would you believe it? Linden/Viki looks a bit stout due to the camera angle. And the waterfall is rather on the geometric side, I admit. And the blue on the upper part of the cave is actually the material colour. I'm not really satisfied with this work but I experimented a lot on the lava and waterfall, mostly in vain, so I got fed up. Perhaps I'll give it another whorl in a couple of years ;-)
` Im not really into reading books unless I find them interesting :P Well As everyone says the Lava is Flat. But I like your Setting here :D and I thought that was a male at first glance but when I look its Victoria -.-
I like it. The cave is really well done. The only thing, which has been said but I am saying it too, is the lava is flat. I really like the other stuff. Nice staff. Good textures/ lighting. What is the blue glow near the top of the image?
As Alexandr, I have not read this book. The scene seems most interesting. A few choices you have made make me smile. First, I like the less than perfect 10 body shape of Victoria. The terrain work is very good. My suggestions would be to use a terrain surface for the lava, it will be more 3d and less flat. I think you played it safe with the intensity of the lava brightness and the light the lava casts upward into the scene. I think you could go much closer to fire, very hot with a very bright light shining upward. I might also consoder a weak radial behind Vicki so we can see her back side. The falling waterparticle system looks great aside from being more or less perfectly angular. If the stream were to widen or become thinner near the bottom edge it might look more like falling water, as is now the uniformity makes me think a bit of fabric. The ibl is doing a bang up job of the bumpmapping on the terrains, really cool.
Unfortunately, I haven't read this book, but I like this image. Good atmosphere here, but the scene seems a bit flat, may be darkening a bit distant part of the cave, or making the scene longer would help. But it's only my opinion.