Fake Stones / Fake Holes

[Ogre]

A solid object made holey using and image mask for transparency.

While playing with this topic I also noted that once I past a certain size for the radius oif the light source it just blacked out. I kept the illumination per meter squared the same as smaller size tests but even if the light source surface showed it cast no light. Once I set the light source illumination above 1e+035 it want black.

[Mohawk20]

That's what I found as well, about the light. I had to dial the brightness down to render the scene a few times...

And that wall looks nice, now for some fog?

[MortalSphere]

Have you guys given up on the the whole crystal thing?  I've just been looking to see if anyone had gotten crystal shapes down pat.  I wanted to do the same thing as you guys just without out the transparency.

[dandelO]

For crystals I'd go for a fake stone shader(s), set as the surface of the crystal on a seperate plane object, just beneath the original terrain, to get crystal forms. poking through the surface. Or apply the fake stone crystal shader to a sphere and distort its shape with fractal displacement.
A rock object also works well because of its ability to be scaled and the number of faces edited but you cannot add displacement to that. A transparency shader(edited water shader with no wave/patch/roughness parameters and high decay distance of the colour of the crystal will work.

The fake stones shader idea is better in my opinion.

EDIT:

Is it really a year since this topic? Bloody hell!

[Mohawk20]

Is it really a year since this topic? Bloody hell!

I was thinking the same thing!
I wouldn't even know where to start if I was to take this up again.
Problem with this tread for me was the render times and the things that didn't work...