Ehlon River and Wake Island WIPs

[A. Smith]

Thanks! The wave effect is rather simple to do, really. The trick is to use a mix of black-and-white plasma and standard clouds on overlay. The most important part (and what gives the actual wave affect) is really the plasma. I can't remember the detail I set it to, but that just comes through eperimentation. The only annoying thing is that you have to desaturate the plasma 100% to have the black and white. Bah, it's just a couple of clicks more.

EDIT: ok, for some reason, I can't remember HOW I did those waves. It's not exactly plasma though. Dammit, I should have noted that down. Oh well, I'll work on reverse-engineering it.

EDIT2: Ah, now I know. It's low-detail plasma displacement-mapped unto itself, then the result is bump-mapped on itself. At least, that's how i was able to roughly duplicate it. Might have done it in another way earlier. Ah well.

EDIT3: New WiP. Something was bugging me with the forest: I realized I hadn't bump-mapped the plasma overlay layers.