Very nice stone and cracked rocks

Started by moodflow, July 30, 2007, 01:09:02 PM

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moodflow

Alright team,

Has anyone found a way to create rock and stones of the below formation?  I know the "cracked face" technique was a huge step in this direction...

Anyone have anything close?

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Volker Harun

#3
It is just about applying multiple displacements. One before 'Compute Terrain' and the other one afterwards.

Think of creating thos Twist and Shear-overhangs and then displace them up and downwards.

moodflow

Super!  Got any example images?   8)
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Volker Harun

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I am working on it ... just a preview of some work:



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Edit: I changed the image to link to the final render.

nvseal

Holy cow Volker! That looks simply amazing.

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moodflow

#8
@Volker:  Hey man, nice work on the image above!  I have had you as a favorite at Renderosity for quite some time for a good reason!   (Ex.  The hornblower and mountain images are amazing - and this was before the softlight). 

Would you be able to add those cracks and such and have them sitting on top of the ground?  (thats what I've been working on myself).
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Volker Harun

@Moodflow - that was you!?!
What you see in the image was an accident ... it happened after applying a crater shader as the last shader befor compute terrain and plugging the terrain itself to the rim-shader. It is far out off scale - from bottom to top about 500m. But that could be corrected. The better view on structures will come later ... maybe, because:

When you were asking I had not ime - but maybe today I might finish something:
Taking a sphere and that wild strata functions. Changing the Y-To-Scalar into X or Z for the cuts going from up to down.
The tricky thing will be to convert the Sin-Output to positive only values - I remember the following: |x| = sqrt(x²) which could be very slow. This should produce some nice ridges but which have to be inverted for cuts.
Distributing the cuts with a powerfractal should be fun ,)

About Hornblower and Towerbuster terrains - I have a tutorial on how to approach such a terrain on the go.

Volker Harun

Attached are 4 images, showing the first stages of developing the function for cracks:

1) no function ~45s
2) sin (x) ~49s
3) sin (sqrt(x²) ~46s
4) first go for variation ~50s

The rendertimes can vary due to other influences than the function itself - so no real benchmark

to be continued ...

moodflow

@Volker:  Looks like you have some great ideas going here.  Thanks for the information on Hornblower.  Those are some amazing images.  I also like the lighting and texture on the mountain images. 
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Volker Harun

I am getting closer, but feel a bit exhausted now ...

Two problems I had so far:
1) Clamping the output from 0 to 1 without loss of data (compressing the range)
2) Getting a good variation in the width of those 'cracks'

No.1 leads to good displacements without enlarging the rocks too much.
No.2 is for realistic results.

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moodflow

Quote from: Volker Harun on July 31, 2007, 10:28:36 AM
I am getting closer, but feel a bit exhausted now ...

Two problems I had so far:
1) Clamping the output from 0 to 1 without loss of data (compressing the range)
2) Getting a good variation in the width of those 'cracks'

No.1 leads to good displacements without enlarging the rocks too much.
No.2 is for realistic results.

Yes, I've tried myself, and ran into some road blocks.  But I know there is a way.  I am thinking it will take a regular terrain, then displace the cracks and such into it.  I've tried the voronoi techniques, but they just don't seem to cut it so far.
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