FlowScape

[Skybird]

Think I found one for the artists, and roleplaying and tabletop map makers.


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC57...d7pJCLQ/videos


Its a superb, easy interface, and it delivers wonderful results in no time. The quality of the visual beauty is high. The engionbe used is Unity, which is considered to be quite powerful, and easy to handle.



For map makers, a top-down view can be selected and a hexagonal or square grid gets superimposed and scaled.


It costs just 12,50 Euros.


My idea for my own use is to create landscape still-lifes, take a "photo", and then process it further in a second graphics editor that allows me to morph it into a imitated painting, for example water colour or oil.



I found this gem of a tool very charming from all beginning on.

[Skybird]

Shows the basic functionality, and how easy it is.


Tipo: if you test the software via Steam, on the openign screen there is an icon in the bottom right corner, "Gallery". Clicking on it sends you into a vitual gallery where you ca freely move around and watch artwork at full screen size done by users that is really impressive, sometimes is as photorreal that you can't discriminate it from a real photography, sometimes copying black-white photography that would make any museum proud to own. Some really inspiring works and stylish arts to discover there, some real wonderful stuff.



The launch button has a name that describes the agenda: "Ecape from reality".

[Buddahaid]

Looks like fun.

[Skybird]

^ Very.

And for that money its a steal. 12 Euros, thats nothing for what you get. External obj-files can be imported, btw.

Its also very relaxing. You dont work or paint with this - you play painting.




You can get expressive visualizations and fantasy-style colours palettes, but also photorealistic motives and black-white photographies. Further editing in photoshop or such software is possible. Much of the texture stuff is done via photogrammetry.

[Skybird]

Maybe I will do a video on that gallery myself, I must see whether I have the recording ressource in my movie software for that. Then I could do the images justice by showing them all, and screen-filling. So much there that would deserve that. Some of the images really stunned me, especially the black-white and more spartanic ones.

[Eichhörnchen]

Very interesting to me as both gamer and painter

The environments in some video games are very appealing and make me want to return just to stroll around looking... i.e. the jungles and beaches in 'Crysis'

[Skybird]

Here it is, the easiest way to find out quickly what kind of final results could be expected from it. There are four or five images that i would hang up in my flat immediately if I had the space.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Very interesting to me as both gamer and painter

The environments in some video games are very appealing and make me want to return just to stroll around looking... i.e. the jungles and beaches in 'Crysis'

if getting inspired by computergames for painting landscapes is your thing, you do not want to miss Call of the Wild. It can look both realistic and breathtaking

[Buddahaid]

My minddd..... bzzzzzzzzz........


The interface reminds me of ZBrush somehow...

[Skybird]

It will come to Linux as well. *Soon.*

[Skybird]

Hoppla, I'm getting scared of myself. First attempt, 40 minutes work, this is the result. I do not claim it is oh so great and wonderful, but what stuns me is that this is my first shot at it, and 40 minutes. Wowh. Think I will have lots of fun and experimentation with this. I'm in deep love with it already.

[Skybird]

Second strike.
Its a day's mini-holiday to fool around with this. It climbs higher and higher in my appreciation.

[Skybird]

The arrangement is not completely new. I had another image with a quite similar scene as a model, but changed some things, and lights, mood, perspective...

[Jimbuna]

Crackin results

[Skybird]