Cracked Ground

[RArcher]

I finally got around to messing with Frank's clip of cracks here: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6432.0.  The camera for this render is sitting at about 400mm above the surface.  The Depth of Field was added in postwork.

[domdib]

Awesome surfacing - very convincing use of the cracks.

[nvseal]

Fantastic surfacing work.

[Volker Harun]

Yep ... very good and realistic surface!

[mhall]

Very nice.

Now you just need one hero flower fighting it's way up out of one of those cracks into the light ...

~Micheal

[Mandrake]

Come on man, you couldn't stick the one seedling in the crack?
as always...  Beauty!!

[littlecannon]

As gorgeous as cracked mud can be.... lovely surfacing.

[Seth]

very good surface !

[Kadri]

RArcher are you aware what you have done here? İ think you are  
Only the dof and maybe the artistic light choice would make some think of 3D. And this 2  things are realy subjektif.

For me this picture is so realistic.

Kadri.

[cyphyr]

Love the spec and reflection, I'm still unclear how you add them into a surface layer... clues ...
Richard

[Kevin F]

Excellent surface here, very convincing. I've had some good results with glen5700's fractalized voronoi method but must have a go with this one.

[ra]

Absolutely impressive work. I also like the DOF effect here.

[cyphyr]

Just figured out what it is
Its a macro close up view of the dried up coffee at the bottom of my mug 
R

[Naoo]

Hi

Agree: Fantastic surfacing work!


ciao
Naoo

[RArcher]

Thanks for the comments everyone!  Richard,  if you simply plug a reflective shader into the child layer of your surface layer you will get the reflections. Specularity is all handled within the reflective shader.