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Subject: Mossy rock

pogmahone opened this issue on Oct 30, 2004 · 13 posts

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pogmahone ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:06 PM · edited Wed, 05 February 2025 at 2:06 PM

Having messed round in the DTE trying to make a convincing mossy rock texture, I chanced on a much easier way to achieve better results. Obvious to experienced Bryce users, but might be useful for newer users :^)

Make a rock, keep clicking and deleting on the rock icon until you find a shape you like, then texture it. I usually use a terrain mat rather than a rock mat. Name it stone1 so you can locate it later on.

Message edited on: 10/30/2004 15:07

pogmahone ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:09 PM

Now you have your basic rock, textured. Duplicate it immediately and name the duplicate stone 2

pogmahone ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:12 PM

Apply the foliage mat to the duplicate.

pogmahone ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:15 PM

With the duplicate rock still selected change to one of the side views (rather than director view) and zoom in very close. Increase it in size the tiniest amount, watching in the nano preview mirror to make sure it's geting only a tiny bit bigger.

pogmahone ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:17 PM

Do a render to make sure it's showing just the right amount of foliage above the surface.......

pogmahone ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:18 PM

You can tweak the colour of the foliage mat to get different effects.

Coltzero ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:24 PM

wow man! didnt know this (very good 4 new peeps indeed) thnx a million! CZ

diolma ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:31 PM

Hi, Pogmahone. I use a similar effect with terrains quite a lot (duplicate terrain, massage it's dimensions/orientation a tiny amount and give new texture, depending on the effect I'm after; being a newbie still, it takes me a LONG TIME to get things nearly right), but I'd never thought of using the same technique on rocks! Thanks for the info! Cheers, Diolma

originalmoron ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 3:42 PM

why not add it to the tutorial section pogmahone? This post will be difficult to find after a while. It would have been a nice tut I think :o)

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haloedrain ( ) posted Sat, 30 October 2004 at 4:03 PM

Attached Link: http://www.pinhead.robbes.com/tutorial/Mario/mg_CTATerrains.htm

I use this sort of technique a lot. MarioG has great tutorial on a similar technique with terrains.

tjohn ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 1:24 AM

Very nice. You can resize your second object as precisely as you want, by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the size icon. I don't know what the limit is, but I know sizing up by .001 works.