Thanks for the help, Mark.

So if I add a UV map I will have less problems with this?  Interesting... If I don't go into the UV editor what does Cararra use to map the shader?

Also I discovered something strange while going through this excercise.  When I change the shape of the cube by shortening one side the bump all but goes away.  But if I make that side larger than the original cube the bump gets deeper.  I believe this is why I wasn't getting any results with my original straight forward mixer shader.  I already had the cube shortened to a wall shape.  Now, this doesn't seem quite right to me.  What do you think, is this the way it's supposed to work?

Here is the scene file.

Arrghh!!  okay Ichanged the file extension to .txt but it's really a .car file.

Mark, thanks for the reply.  I'm still missing something.  I setup my shader like yours and I don't get any bump at all.  Maybe i'm just tired or something...

String Theory

Quote - Hi Mike, Using the shader tree structure shown in the screen capture, you now have all/any of the Carrara functions available as a "wiggle". Even more powerful options like DCG's EnhanceC will allow you animate these mixes if you want. Pretty cool stuff. Mark

 

Thank you Mark.  You're right, now that's cool.

Quote - Hi BWTR, Here is the comment I received back from from the Carrara lead engineer: "The elevation shader was a bit obsolete since it’s functionality is covered by the more powerful environment shader. So the elevation shader is still present for compatibility but we have removed it from the menu to simply a bit the user interface. It should not cause any problem with existing shaders." So, no retooling of "old" shaders is required. Regarding hair, yes hair is a last step. Mark

 

Then maybe we need some direction on its use.  How do I use the Environment shader to get the Wiggle that was in Elevation?  I can only seem to get a smooth gradient.

Thanks
Mike

vincebagna - Thank you for the link.  Those will come in handy.

**vincebagna, where did you find a Fur map for the Milcat?

TIA
Mike**

Why don't you use a rock?

Thank You. 

Thank you.  

I'm looking forward to seeing yours.

Here is my version.

Okay.  After reading your post I tried what you suggested.  It didn't work.  So I got to thinking that maybe the UV data didn't get exported from Hexagon.  I went back to Hex and checked the export and found that 3DS didn't mention anything about UV coordinates.  So I exported in Wavefront OBJ format and kept the UV data. However, when I tried to import this object into Vue 6, it crashed.  Just to make sure I tried it a couple more times.  Each time Vue 6 crashed.  So I tried it in Vue 5, it imported without any problems. However (again :-), the material didn't follow the UV mapping.  See image.  I added a plane with the same material to show how it's supposed to look.

Any ideas?
Thanks

An ecosystem with three different Dystopia blocks. 169744 objects. Just over 2 minutes to render. I have an average computer and it was just starting to slow down a very little bit with this scene. I think using an ecosystem for your project would be worth trying.

Let us know how it turns out.

It seems to me that each time you populate the ecosystem, the plants would be put new places. I assume you repopulated after you resized the plants?