Fractal + image map shader on fake rocks possible?

[bvcastilho]

Hi all,
If this question was already answered please just give me the tread link, I couldn't found it.

Question:
Using the fake stone shader I can either apply a Power fractal as surface shader,
or can use a Image map shader as surface shader. Both gives nice results (attached image).

But there is some way to apply both at the same time on the rocks?

The effect I desire is having the stones format of the fractal shader (left) with the color variations given by the image map (right).

Thanks.

[bigben]

You could try joining them with a surface shader. 
Fractal -> child layer
Image Map -> colour function

[bvcastilho]

Thank you,
You really got the point. Worked fine.

For me this ticket is answered and closed.

Cheers.

[mrwho]

oooh, i want the tgd, i suck at making rocks 

[moodflow]

Nice work!  I like the combination of both.

[DeathTwister]

Wow great going on your rocks, this rocks,

Ya I have not got the rocks to work well for me yet either, so I am very impressed with your results, maybe do a Tutorial for us? if you dunna want to share the Tgd file?, it OK with me /winks, but another Tutorial on fake rock shaders would be very sweet, and since you have such a great result maybe you can share one with us? /smiles.

[rcallicotte]

bvcastilho -

I like my stones' texture here, but what I would prefer is to see some of the shapes you are showing in your work above.  My stones look less chipped and realistic in shape than yours.  How do I create that look to make my stones have more realistic shape?

[Kevin F]

Hey calico, Here's a file with pretty good fake stones that I never got round to rendering fully, it has water reflections for a wet beach and takes a lifetime to render! I was gonna wait 'till the final release.
Please feel free to play with/amend/render whatever. You'll have to apply your own image maps unless you'd like the ones I've used? If you do let me know and I'll post them.
Regards
Kevin.

[rcallicotte]

Thanks!  I'll try these.  I'm curious to see how you controlled the shapes.   

[DeathTwister]

Wow thanks to both calico, and Kevin for their information so far and Kevin's tgd2 file for us to look at, thankies mate /smiles....I will check it all out later and figure out what I have been doing wrong from looking at how it is done right hahaha lolol /smiles.....Thanks so much again for the info.

DT

[bvcastilho]

Hi guys,
Sorry for the late answer. I did not log in everyday.

For those who asked here comes the tutorial on the rocks:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/55991897/

The TGD file is attached

And here a sample image obtained with this terrain

cheers,
Bruno.

[rcallicotte]

Thanks.

[Aragon Speed]

Any chance of a downloadable text file for that tutorial? The only PC I can use has a very vigorous content blocker, and deviantart is one of the (many) sites that's blocked.