Does anyone have landscape pictures/drawings?
Bill Seurer
|> Greetings fellow roleplayers!
|> I'm looking for som good landscape pictures or drawings that I
|> can use to help my players visualize places. What I need is
|> generally pictures/drawings of mountains, valleys, hills,
|> forests etc. (I'm sure you get the point). Optimally there
|> should be no buildings or structures in them, but som
|> old-looking stuff won't matter.
|>
|> If anyone out there has something you'd like to share, please
|> contact me either in any of these three newsgroups, or by
|> e-mail.
|>
|> Thanks in advance.
I don't know about in Norway, but here in the USA you can sometimes find
packs of prints of paintings that are used in university classes. Check
at campus bookstores. I had two such packs from a humanties series of
classes I took at the Univerity of Minnesota and quite a few of them were
landscapes.
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Hans-Christian Prytz
I'm looking for som good landscape pictures or drawings that I
can use to help my players visualize places. What I need is
generally pictures/drawings of mountains, valleys, hills,
forests etc. (I'm sure you get the point). Optimally there
should be no buildings or structures in them, but som
old-looking stuff won't matter.
If anyone out there has something you'd like to share, please
contact me either in any of these three newsgroups, or by
e-mail.
Thanks in advance.
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RGazley
photos of campaign settings...you can usually find them in used book
stores.
John Edwards
<hans.chris...@login.eunet.no> once said:
->Greetings fellow roleplayers!
->I'm looking for som good landscape pictures or drawings that I
->can use to help my players visualize places. What I need is
->generally pictures/drawings of mountains, valleys, hills,
->forests etc. (I'm sure you get the point). Optimally there
->should be no buildings or structures in them, but som
->old-looking stuff won't matter.
->If anyone out there has something you'd like to share, please
->contact me either in any of these three newsgroups, or by
->e-mail.
Look in you're favorite book store for anything by Ansal
Adams (unsure of how his first name is speled). He's a
photographer who specializes in scenery. His work is pretty
good, and I don't recall much in the way of buildings (unless
it's old, weathered, and falling down) in much of his work.
John
Brett Slocum
> Look in you're favorite book store for anything by Ansal
> Adams (unsure of how his first name is speled).
Ansel Adams.
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John Edwards
->John Edwards wrote:
->> Look in you're favorite book store for anything by Ansal
->> Adams (unsure of how his first name is speled).
->Ansel Adams.
Yea, him.
John
Todd Mountjoy
for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like that).
It would make fractal maps and then allow the user to make 3D
renderings with trees, snow, or a variety of elements that the user
wanted to include.
I don't know if this helps or not, but man, they looked REAL!!! I've
dug all through my software and can't find it... (some rogue claiming
to be a friend probably lifted it from me), but I am certain that if
you could find this program you would find it to be what you want.
Also, it allowed the user to make fly-by's so that it actually was
like an animated journey through the world you just created.
If anyone knows more about this program, please post it here... I just
can't recall anything else about.
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> Since no one has mentioned it as of yet, I would recommend KPT Bryce, an
> easy to use rendering program that can produce fanciful, imaginative, and
> other-wordly scenery.
>
> Check it out.
>
> --S.
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Do you mean Kais power Tools?
Not a graphic artist ( but someday...)
REF
Graham Penny
wrote:
>I once had a program that I bought on the clearance bin at Best Buy
>for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like that).
Yup, that's the one...
>If anyone knows more about this program, please post it here... I just
>can't recall anything else about.
>
It's called VistaPro, like you said... most likely 1.0 It's a really
cool program (IMO)- and it's sat in the diskbox next to me here. If
you want it (and don't mind receivng a mail over 1MB in size), e-mail
me, and I'll send it to you...
GP--> G.D....@Mod-Lang.salford.ac.uk
Oh, and just to make you all jealous, I got v3.0 free on a CD on the
front of a magazine. Unfortunately, it takes up the *whole* CD for
various reasons, so I can't send that one instead. Sorry
Jens Alm
tm2...@LTEC.NET (Todd Mountjoy) writes:
>I once had a program that I bought on the clearance bin at Best Buy
>for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like that).
>renderings with trees, snow, or a variety of elements that the user
>wanted to include.
>
>I don't know if this helps or not, but man, they looked REAL!!! I've
>dug all through my software and can't find it... (some rogue claiming
>to be a friend probably lifted it from me), but I am certain that if
>you could find this program you would find it to be what you want.
>Also, it allowed the user to make fly-by's so that it actually was
>like an animated journey through the world you just created.
>
>can't recall anything else about.
>
I've got Vista Pro 3.0, and if you're a little tricky with it, the results can
be absolutely marvellous. There are also some plug-ins that are quite handy,
e.g. FlightPath and VistaMorph. Basically, its a scenery-generator, and a very
good one at that, but you can do so much more! I'm working on a fly-by on a
mountain shaped as a woman's face, with trees and rivers and all.
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Russ 'Argel' LeBar
: I once had a program that I bought on the clearance bin at Best Buy
: for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like that).
: It would make fractal maps and then allow the user to make 3D
: renderings with trees, snow, or a variety of elements that the user
: wanted to include.
[snip]
: If anyone knows more about this program, please post it here... I just
: can't recall anything else about.
The program you are talking about is indeed VistaPro, with the last
version being "3" I believe (Amiga version, at least). It started out on
the Amiga but somewhere along the line and was ported to the PC as well
later in life. As far as I know it's "dead" but I could be wrong. If you
have an Amiga, there's also Scenery Animator which looks much better in
the tree department and quite good overall as well. There might be a PC
version of this as well. Again, if you have an Amiga, World Construction
Set is another program, though it's geared more towards "satellite" type
images, but it was hailed as bringing in a new era of this genre, and
it's images were *really* supposed to look real.
Anyway, VistPro could also do buildings, and there was some sipport
modules out for the amiga version (some of which I think were built0in on
the PC version though I'm not sure). There was also some program that you
could use to convert a standard picture (read Amiga IFF ILBM since it was
an Amiga program) to a VistaPro map, so that you could design your own
landscape.
Anyway, I could ramble on some more but I won't! :-)
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David G. Bell
> I once had a program that I bought on the clearance bin at Best Buy
> for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like that).
> It would make fractal maps and then allow the user to make 3D
> renderings with trees, snow, or a variety of elements that the user
> wanted to include.
>
> I don't know if this helps or not, but man, they looked REAL!!! I've
> dug all through my software and can't find it... (some rogue claiming
> to be a friend probably lifted it from me), but I am certain that if
> you could find this program you would find it to be what you want.
> Also, it allowed the user to make fly-by's so that it actually was
> like an animated journey through the world you just created.
>
> If anyone knows more about this program, please post it here... I just
> can't recall anything else about.
Well, you probably got a damn good deal. An old version got distributed
in the UK on a magazine cover-CD. I _do_ know where my copy is. It
needs a _lot_ of hard work to get anywhere with it.
Another possibility is Fractint. Apart from Mandelbrot sets, there are
some interesting possibilities with the Plasma Cloud patterns, which can
also be converted to 3d images.
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Graham Penny
MLH...@news.salford.ac.uk (Graham Penny) wrote:
>In article <4cmvdr$2...@iac2.ltec.net>, tm2...@LTEC.NET (Todd
Mountjoy)
>>I once had a program that I bought on the clearance bin at Best Buy
>>for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like
that).
>
>
just
>>can't recall anything else about.
>>
>
>cool program (IMO)- and it's sat in the diskbox next to me here. If
>you want it (and don't mind receivng a mail over 1MB in size), e-mail
>me, and I'll send it to you...
>
Okay, I think I may have been a bit hasty here, and posted before
thinking on it. I know I received the program off of a cover-disk, but
I am really not sure about the (c) situation on the program... Todd
payed for it, so I am not sure whether what I'd be doing would be
classed as illegal.
Anyway, I plan to look into it, and if I find out about it, I'll act
accordingly; those ppl who have already mailed me, if you can wait a
couple of days, if I haven't found out by then I'll send it anyway. To
anyone else who wants it, I'll post an update here soon. Feel free to
mail me on the subject, esp. if you can clear this up for me, or post
here.
For the person who wanted the VP3.0 .EXE file, the same applies, but
they will have to wait a little longer, I'm afraid, as I don't have a
CD drive to use at the mo - the magazine was bought on the strength of
the disc being there for use in the future, not whether I could use it
now. Hopefully this situation will be rectified in a few weeks or so,
when my student loan comes thru' :) I haven't actually got a PC of my
own, I just use everybody elses. Soon to change, ppl, soon to change
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Alexander Forst
|> I once had a program that I bought on the clearance bin at Best Buy
|> for about $10.00 and it was called Vista-Pro (or something like that).
|> renderings with trees, snow, or a variety of elements that the user
|> wanted to include.
[....]
|> If anyone knows more about this program, please post it here... I just
|> can't recall anything else about.
|>
The program is called Vistapro made by VRLI. The current version is 3.1 for
PCs, 3.0 for Macintoshes. You can find pictures and more information on
my home page at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/home.html
and on VRLI's page at
Alex
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Alexander Forst
|> Well, you probably got a damn good deal. An old version got distributed
|> in the UK on a magazine cover-CD. I _do_ know where my copy is. It
|> needs a _lot_ of hard work to get anywhere with it.
Well, the hard work is done by the computer. :-) You just have to load
a landscape file, position the camera and target, click a button and wait
for the picture.
Couldn't be easier.
Graham Penny
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