Fungiform rocks

[DJ]

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DJ

[Mohawk20]

How about a reflective shader, so it looks a bit slimy? That would be perfect!

[rcallicotte]

I like where this is going.  More!   

[Confusoid]

Interesting shapes. I wonder if this same shape function could be applied to clouds for towering thunderheads.

[inkydigit]

good work...keep at it!

[domdib]

It would be very nice to see those functions 

[DJ]

Thanks for all comments.

@Mohawk20: I tried this, it looked like plastic, I prefer the "dry version".

@Confusiod: You could try to apply a Displacement Shader on the clouds, where the amount of displacement depends on the altitude of each point.

@domdib: Here's the tgd. If you use it for your projects, please share the results with us.
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DJ

[matrix2003]

Thanks for posting this.  Will be fun to give it a look!

[rcallicotte]

Thanks for sharing!

[mcmiller]

This is a very striking terrain you've cooked up. Thanks very much for sharing this. I'm really curious to see how you did the pinnacle-blobs and the strata.

[mcmiller]

For grins and giggles, I did a reverse view and came up with this. The apparent translucency of the rock-in-front-of-the-sun seems to be more pronounced the further away the camera is from the rock.

Is this an old issue?

[Oshyan]

The sun glow is visible through terrain unless "Raytrace Shadows" is checked in the Quality tab of the Atmosphere shader. This will increase render time however.

- Oshyan

[domdib]

A belated thanks, DJ for sharing. I'm not sure how I'll use these, but there's bound to be something 

[domdib]

For such an eccentric terrain, I thought it deserved a way-out treatment 

Seriously though DJ, quite a complicated node setup - I wasn't sure where to tweak if I wanted to change the shapes. Any suggestions?

[DJ]

domdib:
If you tell me what you want to change I can try to find the corresponding node where you can start with your tweaks.

DJ