Playing with the simple shape shader

[mhaze]

Learnt a lot from this one, a testbed for me.  All simple shape shaders, the canyon, the arch and the lefthand cave. I've also sorted one or two texturing issues.

[jo]

That's very cool, yet another thing I never imagined the Simple shape shader could be used for when I wrote it :-).

[kaedorg]

Very impressive. Hope to learn more about it.

[mhaze]

I've tried using the SSS to punch through terrain to create an arch but not succeeded.  The end wall is always left behind.

[j meyer]

And how did you succeed at last?

[mhaze]

It's two SSS one each side of the canyon with redirects to get them to displace horizontally!

[Dune]

I figured that. And probably smoothing activated in compute terrain? Or wasn't that nescessary in this setup?

[j meyer]

Thanks!
Always better to mention the successful solution instead of
saying how it doesn't work.

[mhaze]

smoothing wasn't needed! its a very simple setup - in fact I was surprised how simple!

[Upon Infinity]

It's two SSS one each side of the canyon with redirects to get them to displace horizontally!

Screenshot?

[inkydigit]

excellent result!
looks effective and useful!

J

[TheBadger]

Well this is a breakthrough, isn't it?

Great job!

[Markal]

Awesome use of Terragen! Please share your techniques!

[mhaze]

It is so simple I'm sure from the clues you've been given you could, with a little playing, replicate it!  But life is short so I'll put a cut down version showing the basics in File sharing.

[choronr]

Simply a project of good experimentation and creativity ...good show Mike!