Once APun a time there was this TG2 community that shared information and made product available for like real cheap and this incredible toy was played with. This DandelO fellow provided technology that let a beginner lay out colorful texture in a bright realistic way where others thought only stones could exist. And another fellow, this Glen dude showed how Voronois could be fractured. Meanwhile, a Walli guy was making bushes and beautiful they are. Except the beginner had trouble getting a population to show up. Turns out all he had to do was reference Planet instead of Planet 01, but such is the learning process. The DandelO nodes were expanded a little, like this Volker guy said that sometimes pumping data in luminous looks nice, and the base nodes were SO easy to add another surface and fake stone to... And then the beginner saw this FrankB note about farmlands and he decided that the Walli world bushes might benefit from landing in an inverse distribution as provided by the same Voronoi that helped the landscape look more realistic. This of course let to the re-discovery of the Color Adjust shader to increase the contrast between light and dark of that the Voronoi Warp was doing. Anyway, the beginner also remembered reading a Volker hint that suggested that sometimes textures would be more interesting if a black light was applied. So, the beginner's theory was that perhaps a brighter primary light and a black light coming from almost the same place might produce softer and interesting shadows. But his eyes couldn't tell if this was really so. And then the beginner said "let there be Render" and an hour and ten minutes later, he did a shameless posting of the works provided by the real gods. And the last words heard as he was drug into the underpits of pain was "I invoked the names, I did, that made it ok - didn't it? -- please don't hurt me!"
