Fake rock experiments being carried out in Meatloaf Valley on Ablikan III.
Defunct Tesla Dimensional Wedge on the conglomerate beds.
Very interesting fakestones in the foreground.
It looks like a concretion and erosion is just doing its job with small stones around
Indeed, that's actually quite a good conglomerate material.
- Oshyan
Oshyan, I was just about to say the same when your post popped up! Anyway interesting work.
Now this image truly Rocks! Really, rocks on rocks on rocks... It's all very done well, even the 'alien' artifact.
Yeah, a good conglomerate is nice too see. Perhaps you will continue to develop that? To bad NWDA is not around anymore. YOu could sell it
Very interesting experiment...stones are looking really good ;) Hope u continue and pls post some pix so we can see to where the development is going ;)
Thanks for the comments.
A couple more versions. I'm sorry the Tesla device has further deteriorated due to time. (melted parts via mesh displacer and surface eaten away by a power fractal affecting the opacity)
In one version the stones went totally fungoid on me and started looking like pancake mushrooms, but are so inflated with displacement that sometimes they show their individual polygons in the foreground.
I am using two stacked smaller Fake Stones directly input as the surface shader input of one larger Fake Stone shader. The stones on the ground are a separate group with the same textures as the others. The large Fake Stone shader has a small scale Strata shader applied.
People usually avoid stone accidentally building on stone by using merge highest shaders, but I thought why not try for some complexity by forcing little stones to comprise the actual surface of a larger stone.
Have to be quite careful with the displacement amounts with this method. The stacked displacements really balloon up and you can easily get not just torn surface exploding stones but torn surface exploding mountains.
Now that last one is a really good conglomerate. ;D
Yes, and the last one almost looks like an underwater scene.
You beat me to it Hannes. That's exactly what I was thinking. With a little more development it could become a quite compelling reef type formation.
Looks very good Fleetwood!
Excellent; I like that efflorescence in the third image.
Sorry, couldn't resist. I hope you don't mind...
LOL! Awesome.
;D
That looks completely real!
No problem. Feels a bit like I should have the red and blue 3d glasses for that one.
Yes, I used two instances of chromatic aberration.
Very nice exploration fleetwood !!! :)