Here is the layer I used to make the "machine" in my challenge entry.. it's paint with shade of grey in photoshop.. A little trick : If you duplicate the terrain and set a different crop level for each one.. you can easily add 2 differents textures to the same objetc. Cheers! Pidjy

Great! Thanks a lot, Pidjy!

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Thanks, that's great.

Thanks Pidjy, that's a fantastic bit if grayscale work.

How do you get such nice sharp edges? Everytime I import a greyscale into the terrain editor it looks rounded and spiked. Not to mention looking a mile high at points. Enlighten me oh Master ;)

LOL.. well ...first I make a 1024x1024 pic.. and I select a 1024x1024 terrain resolution.. Once my pic is done I apply a smooth blur to it.. then I import it in the terrain editor.. if it's still too sharp edged, I apply some "smoothing" in the elevation editing tools.. that's all!

I'll have to try matching the terrain res. I can see how it would get mucked up going from a large res to the default in the terrain editor. Thanx for the tip.