Fake Stones Shader is the MONEY...

[stargsr]

  Please share.

[crazymonkey]

nice man, great effect and detail...

[crazymonkey]

had to have a play with this one came up with this.

[MeltingIce]

Thats pretty cool but why is there a discontinuity right down the middle of your image?  Did you do that trick for dual core processors where you render each half of the image in a different instance of TG2?

[Doofus]

The texture will be set to repeat twice and it will be aligned with the camera. There is a line horizontally too. It would work better if it was a seamless texture.

[crazymonkey]

yep, no discontinuity, just the way the texture tiled

[CaptoAmazo]

wow thats awesome. im gunna have to try that now.

[Lucio]

very beautiful work, and thanks for sharing!

[Will]

Frank if you take a server get me one too!
Great use of the fake stone shaker I love the results.

Regards,

Will

[groverwa]

crazy monkey

Nice pic

I have found that some image shader pics tile into 4 quadrants and if you go to projection type it will be "through the camera" - by accident I found that by making the projection type "UV ojbect" and then going back to "Through the camera" the image shader pic is now just 1 pic

Hope this will help

Mike

[rcallicotte]

That maneuver sounds like a bug, doesn't it?

crazy monkey

Nice pic

I have found that some image shader pics tile into 4 quadrants and if you go to projection type it will be "through the camera" - by accident I found that by making the projection type "UV ojbect" and then going back to "Through the camera" the image shader pic is now just 1 pic

Hope this will help

Mike

[groverwa]

calico

does this happen to you??

anyone else have the problem??

Mike

[inkydigit]

nice job moodflow...thanks for sharin...I have learnt something today!!

[moodflow]

nice job moodflow...thanks for sharin...I have learnt something today!!

No problem!  I think if we all work together and try to tackle certain aspects of image making, we can come up with a library of amazing resources.  Thats my goal atleast.

[neon22]

I took Moodflow's tgd and removed the image. Then colored the last couple of layers of rocks - so I could see it working...

Then I thought it would be interesting to see if I could put some of the detail onto the largest rock. Its already calculated so I attached it from two layers earlier. Yuk...   but whats that on the left ?

Closer examination reveals that the idea is there but I can't control it. Looks inside out.

So try some experiments with inverse and lo and behold this.

I think we could use this mechanism in other places. Would anyone like to continue along this vein ?
I am sure we can improve this... more displacement somehow ?
Maybe there is an easier way to sort-of normalise than this ?

If you attach it to the blendshader it'll crash :-(