Fake Stones Shader is the MONEY...

moodflow · December 29, 2006, 06:40:57 PM

Its usually quite tough to get that "crackly dry caked mud rock" look on terrain. Mojo got it to a point, but the interface was hideous to me. Bryce, and TG1, it had to be faked. I'm loving this new TG2.

Here is an image I just rendered in about 12 minutes, using 7 levels of fake stones on top of one another, with the sizes increasing and density decreasing as the layers increase. These bumps and ridges are real. I did use a custom image map for the base texture, but it only adds a slightly varying effect. I tried it without, and it looked about as good.

FrankThomas · December 29, 2006, 06:43:48 PM

damn that's good ! Any chance of posting the terrain file so we can take a look ??

vissroid · December 29, 2006, 07:05:47 PM

what he said. lol

moodflow · December 29, 2006, 07:09:22 PM

heheh yea

moodflow · December 29, 2006, 07:20:47 PM

Ok here is the file, but it includes a link to a file thats located on my local machine, so not sure what type of error it will give ?

You can just change that file location to another image of your own, or simply remove it and add color and displacement.

vissroid · December 29, 2006, 08:01:39 PM

nice thanx. def' learned a couple things.

littlecannon · December 29, 2006, 08:45:37 PM

Thanks... I just learnt a few things too.

Oshyan · December 30, 2006, 04:54:27 AM

Very nice work. Quite a realistic effect!

- Oshyan

FrankThomas · December 30, 2006, 09:55:53 AM

if you plug a reflection shader onto the output of the pebble shaders, it gives a rather nice effect (or it did with the photo I was using as a texture.) Takes forever to render though

rcallicotte · December 30, 2006, 10:01:04 AM

Thanks for the file. GREAT WORK!

MooseDog · December 30, 2006, 11:05:53 AM

beautiful! thx for sharing

monks · December 30, 2006, 02:06:22 PM

WOW!

monks

moodflow · December 30, 2006, 02:27:23 PM

Yea, I added a reflection shader just after I posted the file, and it took forever to even get past the initial sampling process, so I gave up. I was hoping to get a similar effect to the Luc Bianco canyon image with the "wet" rocks, which looks amazing. I just need more patience at this point (or another PC to render on as well

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This app is WELL worth the price paid, thanks Planetside.

buchvecny · December 30, 2006, 02:43:00 PM

great

added to my l33t tutorial thread.

FrankThomas · December 30, 2006, 04:55:45 PM

Quote from: moodflow on December 30, 2006, 02:27:23 PM
I just need more patience at this point (or another PC to render on as well )

This app is WELL worth the price paid, thanks Planetside.

I so need to walk out of the office with one of the servers under my arm

Quad Xeon processors and stupid amounts of RAM - wonder if they'd miss one heh