Lidar Style W.I.P.
C.C. Charron
Surveyor
Any suggestions are welcome.
I'm really trying to capture the Lidar look.
C.C. Charron
Surveyor
Any suggestions are welcome.
I'm really trying to capture the Lidar look.
Comments
I am not sure of the look you are going for. I did a search for Lidar. Based on the USGS map, those look like landform maps at a distance. Closer up, there is shadows and contour lines. So based on that, I think the general land looks right with the subtle texture. The mountains, however, do not conform to what I have seen. They are too flat on top and the sharp cliffs going up.
But then again, I might be looking at the wrong style of map.
Well, this is what I'm trying to mimic. I'm still in the experimental process. I want to show ancient structures and signs of civilization. I've been trying for a while to come up with something.
I ended up here—a happy accident. I imagine furry humanoid bunnies lighting lamps and selling their wares in the marketplace, which I need to draw symbols for.
Why don't you try a white poly over the whole map and give it like 5% transparency, then add a bit of blur.
I like the colour scheme :)
The basic LIDAR image that you showed is a hypsometric-tinted hillshaded heightfield. That's not an easy thing to do in CC3+ because it's inherently raster data. A lighted bevel on contours with each contour on its own sheet (what you have here) is as close as you're likely to get, but it will always lack the cross-contour shading that is inherent in the hillshading.
I gave up really.
BUT, my happy accident is going to be used for a sci-fi thingy.
Something came out of the attempt.
Ugh, I have to rename everything, and make sense of what the colors mean now that it has really nothing to do with m.a.s.l.