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From bfranke2@home.com:
An interesting technique for the sagebrushes / 
tumbleweeds.  Try to find a way to keep the cacti and 
the sagebush out of the snow line.

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From rjhansen@hotbot.com:
The scene has a real nice atmosphere to it. The terrain seems very like the SW
United States. Nice idea for generating the cacti, however they are not very
realistic with the sharply angled arms and detract somewhat from the
landscape's realism.

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From tony@j4tb.com:
Awsome Sky and Mountain your textures crate an aspect of realism to the image. I
would make the image a lot brighter with more direct light. Though your objects
and textures look wonderful. I find myself feeling like I am in a cool fertile
area not a hot dry arid climate.(Of course I have never been to the desert so I
may be way off on that.) 

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From jd@surveyor.in-berlin.de:
The cacti are plainly destroying the picture. On the other hand, the 
sagebrushes are some of the better ones.

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From tlyons@gnn.com:

cacti are a little too stiff....
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From whhale@nvl.army.mil:
Nice job on the sagebrush.  My only gripe is that the cactii look too much like
balls and cyls.

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From javaearl@hotmail.com:
Overall great picture, but tumbleweeds in the foreground seem slightly sloppy.

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From warp@iki.fi:
There are square patterns in the heightfield that look unrealistic.
The sky looks good, although it's a bit too flat.
The cactuses are too straight. They look like a bunch of cylinders.


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From dearmad@sapere.com:

like the desert with snowy mountain effect.
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From chris_hormann@gmx.de:
Nice colors, good work with the sagebrushes, cacti could have more irregularity

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From jouni@mikrobitti.fi:
Well made mountain, even if it's quite smooth. The cacti have a fairly rendered
look on them, some minuses for that. Nice placement and composition!

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
This has a nice, majestic scope to it.  Most of the 
elements work well, although the cacti could use some 
irregularity in their shaping to make them more realistic.  
I also would have preferred a different color for the 
mountains.  The ground coloring is nice, though.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Majestic.
A small flaw: the cacti on the distant mountain flanks must be about 50-feet 
tall.

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From albiaprime@aol.com:
Artistic - Nice composition.  The distribution of the sagebushes is very
pleasing.
Technical - The saguaro cactus have a tendency to run in lines but otherwise
very
            nicely done
Concept - Good job.


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From file:
nice.. it look's like a New Zealand desert except for the cacti.  I hear Terrain
Maker 2 is being beta tested so watch out for that one.
Notable for composition, lighting, textures


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From file:
Great use of small plants around the whole mountain. Makes it look very real,
and huge!
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