Attached Link: Caustics Generator

Thanks Joe for those good mountain steps....

For those that don't already have any ready made maps, you can get Caustics Generator at the link. It's a cool tool to keep in your art box.

Practice for a bit and see what all the settings do and then save one out for export.

Take it into Photoshop and add gaussian blur to taste...

Proceed to Vue.....

Or....use Photoshop's cloud filter and make a fractal grayscale layer and combine them for some great terrain play.

Now, I'm not sure about how to get things to 16bit....I wound up there yesterday but how is a blur...I think I saved as .psd, then switched modes to something and then to rgb. Can't remember.....maybe Chipp could lend a hand here.

At any rate, you can make great sand dunes the same way...

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