Having messed round in the DTE trying to make a convincing mossy rock texture, I chanced on a much easier way to achieve better results. Obvious to experienced Bryce users, but might be useful for newer users :^)

Make a rock, keep clicking and deleting on the rock icon until you find a shape you like, then texture it. I usually use a terrain mat rather than a rock mat. Name it stone1 so you can locate it later on.

Message edited on: 10/30/2004 15:07

Now you have your basic rock, textured. Duplicate it immediately and name the duplicate stone 2

Apply the foliage mat to the duplicate.

With the duplicate rock still selected change to one of the side views (rather than director view) and zoom in very close. Increase it in size the tiniest amount, watching in the nano preview mirror to make sure it's geting only a tiny bit bigger.

Do a render to make sure it's showing just the right amount of foliage above the surface.......

You can tweak the colour of the foliage mat to get different effects.

wow man! didnt know this (very good 4 new peeps indeed) thnx a million! CZ

Hi, Pogmahone. I use a similar effect with terrains quite a lot (duplicate terrain, massage it's dimensions/orientation a tiny amount and give new texture, depending on the effect I'm after; being a newbie still, it takes me a LONG TIME to get things nearly right), but I'd never thought of using the same technique on rocks! Thanks for the info! Cheers, Diolma

why not add it to the tutorial section pogmahone? This post will be difficult to find after a while. It would have been a nice tut I think :o)

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Attached Link: http://www.pinhead.robbes.com/tutorial/Mario/mg_CTATerrains.htm

I use this sort of technique a lot. MarioG has great tutorial on a similar technique with terrains.

Very nice. You can resize your second object as precisely as you want, by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the size icon. I don't know what the limit is, but I know sizing up by .001 works.

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I have used this many times. It is an excellent technique.

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Thats simple and helpful. Thanks Pogmahone. :)