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Ok... some progress:

1. alpha probles - check
2. new waterfall textures - check
3. waterfall foam lower falls - check
4. waterfall speed all falls - check
5. enhanced Shell logo with white background - check

I'm really pleased with the logo now. Somehow I want to add this to the entrance too. Not sure how though.

Those of you working on the SoK might already have seen my killer-waterfall-texture. I analysed several waterfall images and Cyans Gira waterfall and came up with this on. It's procedural and composed in FilterForge. I can replicate it easily and make it bigger, smaller, wider, more dense, change colors, etc. It really came out well. The foam texture is much simpeler and done in FilterForge as well.

Working on:

- sorting the papyrus plants with passindex
- foam below upper falls (cyan has the foam going in all direction in a circular kinda mesh... want to emulate that)
- thinking about vegitation on the rock and around the pool
- thinking about how to add light (on pilars or something like in the city)
- thinking of looks for my benches. Maybe I will design a combination of a bench and a pot for plants.

I also hope to make the flat fountain interactive in the end. For instance start different streams by pressing buttons. Maybe these buttons should be in front of the benches. Like four benches each with one or two buttons to stop or activate a stream and three buttons for color variation. This would enable people to compose a watershow together. This is something I wanted to do in a seperate age, but what could be nice here too.

Screenies:

Cool!

Amazing

The "Wet rock" effect is so cool, Marcello! How did you do it?

Yeah the wet rock is nice! Does it look like an actual specularity map in-engine or does it just look like a detail texture?

Either way, it looks really nice

Your waterfalls are looking brilliant!

-Kato

It's just a plain texture

But I guess it could be turned into specularity. Maybe like this:

1. Base layer: rock
2. Stencil: letting only those parts through the should glitter
3. Envmap

I guess this could work and would show a reflection on the rock only there where the stencil lets it. Not real specularity, but I think probably the best we can do?!?

Thnx so much for all your compliments!! Doing my best

Magnificent!

Marcello wrote:But I guess it could be turned into specularity. Maybe like this:

1. Base layer: rock
2. Stencil: letting only those parts through the should glitter
3. Envmap

Exactly! (see all the wood floors in boxage) That's how I'd do it.

I don't have ULM, but these pictures look great! There is one nitpicky problem with the D'ni writing on the waterfall wall ("t-sahvahn ahno"). "tsahvahn" means "eternal" but refers to living things. "tsahno" refers to nonliving things. Also, "ts" in D'ni is a single letter, and the adjective follows the noun. So if it matters for the purposes of your shell, you should change it to say "ahno tsahno".

Wow Gorobay thank you for helping me out there. I do mean eternal water, so I will have to change it. I will get back to you if you don't mind to check it again, once I changed it.