Layers of Color

[Henry Blewer]

The displacements are wild, and I like the coloring. If you used lateral displacement, this is how I can usually get away from the dark render spots. I use a Compute Normal input to the lateral displacement. The Compute Normal's setting is changed to the smallest scale size. This helps keep the displacement from wrapping into itself, causing render errors.

[pfrancke]

This thread has opened a world for me.  In the attached image I simply had two imagemaps - a whitish one and the one provided above - on the terrain and each imagemap was blended with multiple powerfractals (with tweaks in different directions).

[Henry Blewer]

I think I might look into this method. It's very impressive.

[MGebhart]

WOW! This is terrific. Perhaps a little more detail for us new users.

Marc

[pfrancke]

    Believe me, I consider myself perhaps not a new user, but certainly a less than clever one.  I'm attaching the essence of the tgd file that created the image.  Just find image textures to plug in.  I stumbled on this technique because of this thread, and I don't know how much is luck or how much is value, but my thinking was that if I pumped random numbers into the blending node of the image map, then the image wouldn't cover all the background.  Or perhaps I could have multiple images...  Anyway, please forgive the shameful tgd - have fun with it!!!