Oh, and I've also tried increasing the resolution of the terrain, from 512 to 1024, with no visible effect...

Any ideas, anyone? And in the image above I did a spot render of the foreground and the further peaks - you can see the bounding box on the peaks but the foreground box has (obviously) gone.

Message edited on: 06/28/2005 04:12

Is the foreground and background the same terrain? You could try decreasing the scale of the mat. Or wait for a bit for a Terra expert:)

there is no close up feature in dte, as in this picture the front is also the low part you could use a height dependant texture.make the low part more defined. It also might help to put the bumb on . btw did you try my english church fran?

No, it's your texture's SCALE that is the problem here, Fran. You need to scale it up a bit, that's all... In the Materials Lab, not the DTE itself.

er..uh (does best Beavis imitation..;) what's the difference?..;) uh huh huh huh..;)

Materials Lab, Deep Texture Editor:-/uh huh huh huh;)

cool..did I like, just..score?..;) thanks..I kept thinking of the Materials room for some reason..too many packages, not enough time.

Look : Everyone knows that labs are WAY cooler than rooms. Rooms are stupid, and that's final. Nobody works in their ROOM. (looks around dubiously)

I dunno..I work in a lot of labs, and I'm always worrying I'll knock something over that will dissolve my sneakers..;)

Thanks, LSD. That was it, matlab editor. Quest, I tried the frequency, it was the scale control. Now of course I need to reduce the frequency to get back the soft sandy look, but WITH the resolution in the foreground... or something. Thanks all, off to play again...

Fran-- If you have a decent CPU and RAM, you might try increasing the number of octaves on the noise channel instead of decreasing the frequency. High numbers of octaves create larger, higher quality textures at the cost of longer render times. You can then increase the frequency to get back to the effect you had in mind.

Well, it could be the terrain editor, too :-) When setting a terrain from 512 to 1024, Bryce is just interpolating without calculating new details. You may change the terrain's resolution, uncheck as shown in this link and hit that 'fractal' button again for recalculating with finer details. Regards, Haroon

Yes Fran, I gathered that, I was suggesting you try both as I implyed, frequency and scale control including raising the terrain resolution. I used 512 in my example.

I had already pushed the frequency button, so when I changed the size in the matlab editor it went all busy, so I'll have to change the frequency and turn it back down I think, to get back to a smoother sandy texture... hopefully.

The terrain in red is 249.1% in "Edit Texture" and its size in the resolution is 1024, the terrain further away and on the right of the wireframe image is 512 resolution and in "Edit Texture" it's 131.1%.

Dunno if all that helps, but...(shrug)

Message edited on: 06/30/2005 06:35

I had to change the sizing in the resolution and the "Edit Texture" on the closer (red) terrain 'cos originally its peaks looked like pointy but melted marshmallows, not rock.