Mud

[Harvey Birdman]

I've been doing a little series concentrating on improving my surface texturing techniques. To that end, here's a study in mud.

[old_blaggard]

Your mud looks pretty... well... muddy .  Do I see Voronoi there?

[Harvey Birdman]

Yeah, I looked at the 'cracked face' tgd and cooked it down to a 4 node 'cracked mud' shader, then used a little image shader based displacement to create the channel through the mud flats.

I did another version with a volcano in the background and tilted the camera up a bit to give the scene a little more balance, but I like this, with just the mud.

[rcallicotte]

Very good job, Harvey.  I like the mud and the stones.  This is very picky (very!), but I'd like it better without the grass sprigs.

[Harvey Birdman]

Really? I just kind of tosssed those in as an after-thought. No matter. The mud is the thing. I'll have to try sand dunes next.

[rcallicotte]

Well, it's good mud.   

[sjefen]

Cool. Wanna share how you do it?

[Mavcat]

What calico said xD pretty nice ^^

[otakar]

Amazing what some people whip out. The rocks are looking very real, too.

[Harvey Birdman]

Thanks, all. I'll post the .tgd later.