Actually, that's a great idea! I was looking for something to submit..... I'll do it now. I don't know if I'm too late for Nov. or not... Am I, Brian?

I'm pretty sure he is wrapping the current issue in the next few days. .. . wait for next month and make it more complete. (with lots of maps for us lazy sluggers ;-) Maybe falconperigot can contribute the nice one he used on the sphere? Markd

That's kind of you Markd. I'll happily let brainmuffin have it if he wants to include it.

I'd be glad to, FP. You can e-mail it to me @ thebrain.brainmuffin.studios@verizon.net

You're welcome! I like the look of it- can't quite put my finger on it, but I know I like it. Maybe the bits of lighting? Or the fade to gray? Looks like a future asteroid city. . . In another vein, I was pondering (during my commute) whether it would be possible to do something more procedural. If you added/multiplied a bunch of shaders together, it should be possible to get adjustable layers of greeble effect. . . I'll try and play with it later today. If the tree gets too awkward but the idea seems sound, I'll make a custom shader for generating greebles with Agrooves. Markd

"Squares" work quite nicely... (that's what I used for the flecks of light in my image above - glow channels squares with a low threshold.) THis is AGrooves using a proceedural shader. All that I did here was change the value sliders to give the different results but the threshold and tile numbers would give a lot of variation. Will email you the pic, BM. :-)

That's cool. Thanks for the pic, btw. What I'm working on is similar, except I'm using small tileable maps, and I'm planning on mixing them with a procedural mixer.

I spent 15 minute on this model with dynamic extrusion. I think it is the only true modeling tool for greeble. It need improved tesselate to put multiple grids to save me some time on the windows. City method 14

Rendered image with GI City method 15

Windows study Right greeble is with nurbs. City method 16