Avoid shaders to affect all terrains ?

[edlo]

How to avoid the surface shaders to affect a height field terrain ? I have finished a rocky foreground but I wantsome other mountains a  bit to the background that are unaffected by all this stone shaders.
Is this possible?
Thanks.

[Njen]

Ok, this is very quickly put together...there are probably better ways to do it, but I came up with this just then as an idea...Maybe someone can improve on this?

[edlo]

Ok, this is very quickly put together...there are probably better ways to do it, but I came up with this just then as an idea...Maybe someone can improve on this?

Thanks Pal that was fast
I will try that

[Oshyan]

Interesting approach! I'm honestly not sure what ramifications that has for the rest of the scene, but it does seem logical at least.

A more traditional approach would involve some kind of slope/height constraint/masking, or an image-based mask. There are a number of threads around the forums on how to do this, a search ought to turn one up.

- Oshyan

[rcallicotte]

How do you create two Base Colours shaders?

[§ardine]

Copy and paste (Ctrl+c Ctrl+v) works.

[rcallicotte]

Thanks!

[Lucio]

I also thought about that, and I tried to use image based masks to avoid a shader affecting the entire terrain and limitate it to a particular zone, with good results. However the node-based architecture of TG2 makes theoretically possibile multiple methods. This is also a great potential of the software, I guess

[§ardine]

Not that it matters much, but for those who were wondering about where to find the Base Colors Shader in the menu list, it's a Power fractal shader v3 with displacement turned off and color on.

Kinda obvious now that I see it 

[Will]

Heh, yea now that I think of it they are pretty much the same

Regards,

will