yeah, the ground is the same as the terrain. I don't actually recall where the pattern came from. I have several thousand pictures in a file that I use to make textures from. I liked it because if you add just a touch of ground fog, the terrain blends into the ground a biy better than most in Bryce do. Yeah, the energy discharge, this is the first time I've let the thing render out all the way to be able to see it. I had already made a note to make it more transparent, and was planning to add glow via eye candy in post. Yeah, ducts and piping were what I thought too. Back to modeling I guess lol.

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