Rocks, sand, dirt

[Martin]

Hope you don't mind if I keep posting my experiments.

[luvsmuzik]

Nope. Each one is a marvel. Very interesting and unusually beautiful. This series looks like the "Standing Stones" (not rolling)

[Martin]

Nope. Each one is a marvel. Very interesting and unusually beautiful. This series looks like the "Standing Stones" (not rolling)

Well, I had a standing stone picture series earlier last month:)

[Martin]

Tried to make a new ground texture node network, so when I want to render some nice rock formations and I need a ground shader that looks good from high up as well as upclose I can just insert this node network.
I have to tweak it but I think it works.
A few renders made at 3 km height, 800 meters, 10 meters, 2 meters.

[Hannes]

Carry on!! "Cartoonmars 44" looks like a Star Wars podrace backdrop. Great.
And some of your ground textures look like someone had swept it with a broom. Interesting.

[Martin]

Carry on!! "Cartoonmars 44" looks like a Star Wars podrace backdrop. Great.
And some of your ground textures look like someone had swept it with a broom. Interesting.

I used to make podrace scenes in 3ds max years ago:) So I learned a lot from those star wars rocks! Phantom menace had some amazing rock miniatures! Too bad they were more proud of those early cgi creations than those amazing miniatures.

Also that broom effect is something you can see on satelite images:) I checked google maps for references. A few quick look at the Nevadan desert and I have all the reference I need !

The shader is finished, tweaked it until I'm satisfied with it : )

[Martin]

The new shader in action

[Hannes]

Great!! The ground texture looks fantastic!!

[Martin]

Great!! The ground texture looks fantastic!!

Yeah, I'm happy with it^^
Also , I totally forgot about this render:

[luvsmuzik]

I know you are doing Mars....but I truly expect to see a new Mt. Rushmore soon. Such precision displacements.

[Hannes]

...probably Trump only!

[fleetwood]

Good series and multi-distance texture. Mars44J is grand.

[Martin]

I know you are doing Mars....but I truly expect to see a new Mt. Rushmore soon. Such precision displacements.

Well, not Mt. Rushmore, as this is Mars, but you have Mount Zblorgmore, with the carved faces  of the first Warglars of Mars. (yeah, I had to do  15 minutes of zbrush sculpting haha)

[TheBadger]

Hannes,

lol nice dig. Now that is good CLEAN fun.

Nice stuff Martin

[Martin]

Ah,nice to see that after all these years, the carved face of Lord Lonrthox is still visible.