achieving this effect?

[Rich]

does anyone know how to get this to work: http://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/v/tg2gallery/steve_taylor_first.jpg.html
specifically just the effect of the smooth layer over the underlying strata...
ive tried many ways for a while now and cant quite get it...

[dhavalmistry]

yess....I was also wondering about it....cant figure it out...

[FrankB]

I haven't tried it myself, but I'd say if you apply a strata shader to the child port of a surface layer, which only exist at high slope ranges, then you'll have this effect.

Cheers,
Frank

[Dark Fire]

That picture is very clever when you analyse what has actually been done. Is there anything you can't do with Terragen?

(OK, well, you can't order pizza, but I might make a plugin for that...)

[Volker Harun]

Maybe you want to have a look at the file I have supplied here  http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=678.msg5759#msg5759

Volker

[Volker Harun]

Or maybe you try it on your own:
- create a negative displacement where the strata is supposed to appear.
- make a child layer with another displacement which is stretched along the X- or Z-Axis

[Rich]

Wow, i get it now... a negative displacement...
thankyou so much, and you've given me other ideas too!