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Hi Does anyone have any idea how to create good enough procedural texture in OCtane We have a very large area 3 by 3 miles and we need both distant shots and closeup for animation.
Seamless bitmaps just leave crazy lines from a distance. All this just still looks bad. How Pixar does their terrains so good
Thank you

Don't you need to tweak Ray Epsilon when scale is very big or very small?... Try that first.

coilbook wrote:Hi Does anyone have any idea how to create good enough procedural texture in OCtane We have a very large area 3 by 3 miles and we need both distant shots and closeup for animation.
Seamless bitmaps just leave crazy lines from a distance. All this just still looks bad. How Pixar does their terrains so good
Thank you

Have you ever played a video game? There are a lot of tricks and techniques to mask out the tiling for terrains. Pixar doesn't simply use a tiled textures, to create a realistic terrain you are gonna need A LOT of other items on the ground, grass blades, leaves, rocks, plants, fallen branches, etc. A simple texture will never ever give you realism.
Take a look on how I did the terrain for my Metaverse entry here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=49188
Good luck.

Thank you both!
I a mso hoping that with OCtane 3 we will be able to buy procedural textures

Maybe giva a tool like world-machine a try for distant shots and background terrain. For close-ups do a tiled-texture setup with decals and object cover to avoid tiling.
It really depends on the type of project.