Sequel to snowshader: sandshader

[Tangled-Universe]

Thank you all so far

Stunning!

How long does it take to render this?

This is rendered at detail 1 and AA 6, rendertime was 25 minutes? Can't remember exactly.
I think when the sand is "bare" without any fake stones it will render much faster.
This image contains Frank's rockbed and has 10 fake stone layers if I remember correctly.
That slows down the rendering quite much.
I'll render it again tonight, because I'm absolutely not sure about the time I mentioned.

Martin

[domdib]

Here's a few colour suggestions.
Actually, the "yellow" sand is more of a peach colour I guess 

[Tangled-Universe]

Thanks for posting these, I'll get onto it.
Actually, I think the first image isn't that hard to reproduce in TG2. Most difficult would be the lighting actually.
Inspiration, nice!

Martin

[Tangled-Universe]

Ok guys, Frank and I almost solved the integration problems for this technique within existing scenes.
The sand is made up of just 1 node Examples will follow somewhere this week

Martin

[domdib]

So what happened? Did you hit an unexpected hitch?

[Tangled-Universe]

Yes and no. Primarily I didn't have much time for it, but I'm also still not very happy about the integration of this technique into other scenes. It's improved, but still not very reliable.

[efflux]

Excellent rippling sand.