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FlowScape

Let Nature Flow from your Brush · By PixelForest

Thanks!

A topic by PhilW created Feb 09, 2019 Views: 618 Replies: 7
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First off - what a great program! I have been using 3D landscape programs since the 1980s including Vista (remember that anyone?!), Vue, Carrara and even once wrote my own fractal landscape generator. You have managed to capture a huge range of possibilities in a fun and easy to use interface. Having said that, can I ask a few questions:

- is there a hot key to take an image? Is there any control over the resolution of the image that is captured (although I was pleasantly surprised that it is higher res than the viewport).

- I have seen a number of videos - are these captured by screen recording, or is there a way within the program itself?

- Is there any possibility of an iPad version? I know that some iPads are lower powered, but with a more modern iPad or iPad Pro, this would be great to use on that!

- Can the size of the paint brush be varied?

There are so many possibilities for extension of this concept - I hope that you can do this without making it overly complex as the ease of use at the moment is one of its big points. But just a few ideas:

- I know that people have asked for export. What about integrating it in something like Daz Studio? Not sure if that would be possible or practicable, but it would be a huge seller if it could be done.

- I also know that buildings have been requested, which is great. There could also be roads / paths? Randomly generated landscapes? Landscaping tools to build up or flatten areas?

Added vegetation choices - trees in blossom, bare trees for winter scenes (and even snow?!). Autumnal trees.  Other animals. Maybe some of these could be extra purchases, as the core program is such good value.

I could go on, but I think you can see that you have fired my imagination! I hope some of these ideas are useful. And thanks again for making this.

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Ha yes I remember vista pro. That river making feature that followed the contours of the landscape and made lakes was awesome. 

You can press f8 to take an 8k screenshot. But save first because if your system can't handle that it will crash the program. 

Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to resize the brush. 

Videos can be made with another app like obs or shadowplay. 

I doubt it would run on an Ipad sadly. 

More features to come, I'm trying really hard to make something easy to use yet have lots of features, but the more I add the harder it will be to use, it's a fine line


Thanks for supporting! 

Thanks for the response and help. I am using it on a laptop with a trackpad, so no scroll wheel. Is there another way to resize the brush? looking forward to where you will take this.

Typically, most laptop track-pads will interpret a dragging motion along the right-hand edge of the track-pad as a scroll-wheel. Check the track-pad driver settings. The track-pad itself may even have a scroll-bar marking on it, showing that the function is active by default.

Developer

Updated to 1.1 you can use - and = to resize the brush

I was using Vista Pro too - with Amiga 600...It was so incredible moment in my life - i was so excited to see rivers flowing my mountains (thin blue lines in very low resolution  320x256 px). It was a time when every picture was calculated in 4-5 hours, time to time 8-9 hours...Rendering was possible with : 
-) Real 3D
-) Imagine 2.0
-) Turbo Silver
-) Sculpt 3D
-) first Cinema 4D versions 

And these pieces of software were able to run with 2 MB of memory and 14 Mhz processor (Amiga 1200 had really nice Motoral 68020 unit inside)

Developer

Awesome :)

So many old timers here haha

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thanks for all the help and advice. I had an Amiga as well.