how are people doing strata these days?

[Jack]

hey was just wondering how are people achieving strata these days still with the strata outcrop shader or are people using that file efflux posted with those complex functions?

[inkydigit]

in my latest image(massif v2) I have strata like structures, but did not use strata and outcrops shader...I think it maybe caused by the large scale voronoi merged using a power fractal as a mix controller, though I could be wrong?

[Henry Blewer]

I use it. To limit the area it effects I use a surface layer and fractal breakup. Before I add it, I use my power fractals for color and displacement. Then I measure to get the size of the strata and the hard layer spacing.

[bobbystahr]

I've had some luck using a painted shader to position the Strata shader in the terrain tab. I generate/load a terron and paint the area I want the Strata to appear and rhen still in the Terrain Tab I go: Add terrain>Displacement shader>Strata and outcrops shader and then adjust the parameters of the shader till it looks either cool or like what I want.. ...

[Goms]

I like using the strata outcrop shader and a power fractal with its noise tweaked by 0.2 or 0.1 in y direction.
with an additional constant blend-shader for the strata shader, you can get smooth and also very hard results.