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From: Bryant Reif <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Modeling Rocks
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At 06:12 PM 1/27/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Has any one come up with a way to model a large scale rock outcropping?
>I'm trying to model a rock wall as you might see in a quarry.  I need it
>to look smooth in places and still show hard edges in other areas.  We've
>all done the Asteroid tutorial, but I'm looking for something with more
>detail, i.e., small cracks, chips, etc. on a large rock face.  I could
>use an image map, but I need to move past it. :(
>TIA
>-Eric

How good are you at creating texture maps?  If you can draw your outcroping
in gray scale with the light areas representing protrusions and the dark
areas representing chips and cracks, you could use it as a displacement map.
If you add a texture map on top of this you can get really realistic results.

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