Rock

[AP]

Ten different types of rock. Based on current experiments.

[bobbystahr]

Ten different types of rock. Based on current experiments.

An embaeassment of riches with rocks today. I also uploaded a link to 10 .obj rocks over at renderosity, heh heh...then I noticed this and now I have 20 new rocks.

[AP]

One can never have enough rock.

[masonspappy]

Nice collection. Thanks!

[AP]

You are welcome. Hopefully what is there allows room for much experimentation. I still have it in mind to share the one hundred or so functions, hopefully that will follow soon.

[luvsmuzik]

One can never have enough rock.

I second that! Thankyou!

[luvsmuzik]

I will ask here because it is shared here. I have no problem adding a single rock from this share. How would one make a population from this? I tried to import my own sphere to use for a population and attach a modified clip version (starting with everything but the original sphere) as displacement function to default shader but for me it is not working.  I also tried the TG rock population. My clip distorts a fake stone shader but does not replicate your displacement.

[Oshyan]

As far as I know these are using Fake Stones or other Displacement, they are not *objects*. Only objects can be populated. So the answer is you can't populate these rock shader networks.

- Oshyan

[bobbystahr]

As far as I know these are using Fake Stones or other Displacement, they are not *objects*. Only objects can be populated. So the answer is you can't populate these rock shader networks.

- Oshyan

I opened one in note pad and saw Sphere, will take it to my tg computer and check it out


rock 1 is a sphere...so all likely are and Spheres can't be populated

but the ones I uploaded are all .objs so can be populated.

[N-drju]

Yes, it's a pity native rocks cannot be populated. Why?

They offer great variety and can make for good rocks in a "standalone" mode. Much better than the "rock" native object if you ask me...

[luvsmuzik]

These files are wonderful examples of displacement. I shall study that part, at least. But they sure would be nice in a population.

Thanks @ Bobby Stahr for checking that. I can make an imported sphere population. Would the proper way to make a clip of just the displacement be to box select the nodes, all but the sphere? I tried that, but in a population I do not get much but something resembling a sputnick.

[Oshyan]

You can't populate native *displaceable* objects of any kind (including rocks). That's the limitation. It's related to the overall issue with ray tracing of displacement, I believe.

- Oshyan

[luvsmuzik]

Thank you Oshyan for the final answer. A patient person with TG creative or Pro could add these at their leisure. Wonderful share regardless!

[AP]

When I built these rocks, they were more meant to be hero rocks. It is a shame they can not be populated, perhaps someday. I am working on a number of Fake stone shaders so those will cover an entire planet in this case. I want to provide at least twenty or thirty different types of stones. I am halfway finished as of current.

[Matt]

You can't populate native *displaceable* objects of any kind (including rocks). That's the limitation. It's related to the overall issue with ray tracing of displacement, I believe.

- Oshyan

You can populate the built-in Rock object because it's one of the populatable types, not the fully displaceable type. But if you're building rocks from built-in spheres, they can't be populated yet.

Matt