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Answers in this category:

1. How can I make a landscape?
2. How can I make realistic looking water?
3. How can you make height maps?
4. Where can I learn how to model a face?
5. How to make a realistic sun

1 - How can I make a landscape?

Contributed by Daniel Jircik.

You could probably write a book on this subject but a good place to start
is:

https://www.linuxgraphic.org/section3d/blender/pages/didacticiels/paysages/index-ang.html

The above mentioned uses bumb maps to create a terrain effect.. Another but more
cumbersome aproach. (an alas Windoze only) is to use a freeware program
called Terragen. This program generates terrain maps based on your input
parameters. You then have to use another program Ter2Blend to be able to import
the Terragen file into a blender file.
The links for these two programs can be found at:

https://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

and

https://users.skynet.be/sky33676/ter2blend.html

BLEND LONG AND PROSPER

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2 - How can I make realistic looking water?

Contributed by Dell'aiera Pol.

To create a realistic water effect, you have to create a material with a bump mapped 'stucci' texture.

Decrease the value of the alpha and press the button Ztransp in the Material menu.

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3 - How can you make height maps?

Contributed by B@rt.

Creating heightmaps is done with the 'noise' button in the Edit Buttons window (F9). First, create a mesh that is dubdivided a few times. Next, assign a texture to it that represents the heightmap.

Enter editmode and select all vertices. Click 'noise' repeatedly to offset the vertices in the z-direction.

A good tutorial about this can be found @

https://www.blendermania.com/tutorials/tutor/xaymaca/gimpqbist.php3

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4 - Where can I learn how to model a face?

Contributed by magic.

https://www.blendermania.com/tutorials/tutor/BarryBonds/faceb001.php3 as of 4/13/01

Editors note:
Also check out SamB's wonderful python script for head creation at
https://www.blender.nl/showitem.php?id=107
Daniel Jircik

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5 - How to make a realistic sun

Contributed by comastalker.

plz refer to the tutorials-section of my webpage :
https://members.tripod.de/comastalker/

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