[Bernie]

As always, an innovator and incredible modeler. :sign_rockon: What an amazing set of photos! :clapping:

[hiball3985]

My first practice, which will need more and some fine tuning :rotfl:

[SVRy_Steve]

Well!

That's one heck of a chunk of rock and ice. Good start though.

It looks like with OR set to visibility (in video prefs) to 10,000 they are visible for several miles.

Steve

[hiball3985]

You should have seen it before I resized it :rotfl: Its a 1024x1024 ace and using the numbers you posted it was huge. I just tried a resize stretched it out and lowered a little.

[SVRy_Steve]

Would you like to try Rainier and McLaughlin? If so, I can PM them to you. No instructions, but you already know how it's done.

Steve

[hiball3985]

SVRy_Steve, on 01 December 2015 - 06:35 PM, said:

Would you like to try Rainier and McLaughlin? If so, I can PM them to you. No instructions, but you already know how it's done.

Steve

I sure would, thank you. And thank you for the how to, I always like to learn something new. Like you, the wife and I spend a lot of time out in nature and when we see some of the freaks of nature we always laugh and say if we did that on the layout no one would believe it..

[hiball3985]

I've been playing with it and have decided my route is the problem unless I resize it. I just don't have a good area to place it far enough away. Tomorrow morning I'll try somewhere else. Thanks again Steve.

[Mipman25]

I always love looking at your screenshots, Steve. Your use of forest objects is simply incredible, especially with the distant mountain and log dumping site.

Throwback to when I stumbled upon the narrow-gauge logging line on the Allegheny Rails route. If only there were scenery here...

http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc443/DustinJRaiken/408d9287-7e4f-4165-ac8d-fec3521a3535_zpsaab8b1df.jpg

[hiball3985]

Inspiration from Steves idea has the wheels turning for ideas. Here is one I tried for something closer to my neck of the woods.

[SVRy_Steve]

I like that! Very dramatic and a place I'd like to be.

The possibilities for special landscape features are endless this way, although you have to watch where they show when moving to different angles of view (far off).

Meanwhile, what got me thinking big rocks (mountains) was what I was working on before trying mountains, little rocks. I've been very unhappy with the 3d rocks available. I think it just is too poly heavy to make a realistic boulder. So my rushing mountain streams have suffered.

Now logging lines tend to follow streams and most loggers like to fish, so I figured on a fisherman and mossy rocks might be possible. My streams are done with transfers, so anything that sits in/on them, that's a forest object, has to sit on the surface, they won't sink in.

I was a bit curious as to how these rocks would look from all angles, seeing as they turn with the camera. So, the moss covered rocks, big and small, along with the fisherman, are single forest objects!





Steve