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Title: Gordon Cavern
Post by: dandelO on February 27, 2012, 07:50:29 PM
Terrain file by Danny Gordon, supplied for use in the newly revived Terranuts Terrain Challenge (http://www.terranuts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13881).

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Cheers! :)
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: Jo Kariboo on February 27, 2012, 08:32:22 PM
I like your direction of search and the experimentation.
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: Kadri on February 27, 2012, 09:30:22 PM

I like it :)
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: dandelO on February 27, 2012, 09:40:54 PM
Thanks, Jo, Kadri. :)
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: Dune on February 28, 2012, 02:49:13 AM
Very nice, Martin. Just the right darkness. 
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: inkydigit on February 28, 2012, 05:44:39 AM
looking really nice so far...
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: mhaze on February 28, 2012, 11:47:05 AM
Impressive! Now if only I could get effect I'd be very happy!
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: dandelO on February 28, 2012, 11:47:14 AM
Thanks! :)
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: dandelO on February 28, 2012, 11:52:50 AM
Mick, the idea is basically to add a duplicate planet with a negative radius. Use a copy of the original planet and terrain shaders but invert the displacement values and adjust offsets to make the top and bottom terrains mirror each other. After that, I use different redirects and displacements for each surface to make them not identical any more.

I like to clamp the 'floor' of the original planet but leave the roof alone so there is a nice, flat ground surface. Obviously leave the second planet atmosphere input empty. That's about it, in short. :)

I think I could have used more extreme redirects and secondary displacements here as the floor and roof still kind of look too similar, there are differences but not enough.
Title: Re: Gordon Cavern
Post by: TheBadger on February 28, 2012, 09:13:28 PM
Interesting work Martin, looks good. I liked the video too.
The contest limits you on what your able to do, but afterwords I wonder what you would add to this?