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adit — Ambrosia, the Run

Published: 2004-12-18 03:02:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1098; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 180
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Description Mythology
Ambrosia was a contraban, only a god could drink it, thus it caused much Curiosity among the mortals and titans. A titan named Aeras was able to steal an glass of Ambrosia from Apollo, he ran as fast as he could, unfortunately he was not able to escape Apollo on his chariot, Apollo chased him to the ends of the earth. Finally Apollo's chariot horses struck him with their mighty hooves, causing him trip and spill the precious drink. Aeras was banished to the underworld, unfortunetly the Ambrosia was irrecoverable, as it gave power to the gods, it made the land more fertile creating growth and beauty. But what the reprecutions? unseen...yet..
Story
Pirate Cruiser Alpha3R45 crash landed on a mysterious planet, its stolen cargo, which was unknown to the crew caused a malfunction to the guidance system of the Ship which resulted in a crash landing. Unfortunately the crash caused a massive melt down of the ship's reactor core. The survivors lay abandoned, exhausted and starving on a paradise. Unknown to them the ships cargo is already cause extensive changes to the planet's environment.
Specs
Worldmachine
Used a Beach-Maker Macro I found in the World Machine Forums
A simple Perlin
35 seconds to create
Saved as Terrain file
513x513
Terragen
Surface map: was a new one, mixed with some ones i had lying around
Atmosphere: wanted to keep it simple, but some nice colors so yea
Terrain: only lowered and heightened somethings
Water: Simple one...and used the Transperancy plugin
Rendered at 3000x2250
Photoshop
Time Spent: 10 minutes
Pretty much just tweaked stuff
file was 83 mb
Comments
Since this is a wallpaper, i'll add in the different sizes and ratios later
Hope you enjoy this

EDIT: Cheers to BM for the name and a little help with the story
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Comments: 16

tigaer [2004-12-18 22:26:56 +0000 UTC]

nice texturing and terrain there... water looks a bit weird... aside of that... nicely done

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MadmansMelody [2004-12-18 15:50:24 +0000 UTC]

I don't know why the fuck you aint got any favs!?!

Getting one from me though great texture and overal shoot

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adit In reply to MadmansMelody [2004-12-18 16:33:58 +0000 UTC]

I know! wtf is this world coming too

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duris [2004-12-18 14:44:43 +0000 UTC]

Great terrain and clouds.
Well done

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adit In reply to duris [2004-12-18 16:34:17 +0000 UTC]

thanks dude!

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wartistic [2004-12-18 13:14:49 +0000 UTC]

very nice again

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adit In reply to wartistic [2004-12-18 16:35:37 +0000 UTC]

jup, anytime you wanna collabe

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bigejoe14 [2004-12-18 06:22:12 +0000 UTC]

I love the way the mountains look in this one. Aweseom job!

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adit In reply to bigejoe14 [2004-12-18 16:35:25 +0000 UTC]

hehe gracias!

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Ashen-Decay [2004-12-18 03:33:46 +0000 UTC]

Amazing piece

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adit In reply to Ashen-Decay [2004-12-18 16:35:08 +0000 UTC]

thanks dude, hope you stay at GFX, won't be the same w/out you..

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Bleekster [2004-12-18 03:09:13 +0000 UTC]

World Machine........Great work Adit, I love it

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adit In reply to Bleekster [2004-12-18 03:12:24 +0000 UTC]

thanks dude
comment on it on gfx

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Bleekster In reply to adit [2004-12-18 03:14:30 +0000 UTC]

Sure thing, I'll do it now

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theyrocked [2004-12-18 03:04:16 +0000 UTC]

wow, great work... what was the other program you used besides terragen and ps??

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adit In reply to theyrocked [2004-12-18 03:12:00 +0000 UTC]

World Machine, its the one that makes the terrain

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