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-Vormav-

02-15-2005, 07:10 AM

Hey. This is what I've been messing with today. Though I'm liking the progress, a lot of this just doesn't look quite right. Maybe just not enough color values (but I have trouble adding colors without making it look too 'soft'), or maybe it needs some steam or smoke; not completely sure.
Any tips? I noticed before that Allan McKay had a tutorial up on creating a lava shader. However, his required the use of some blur plugins, which Mental Ray doesn't support, so that's out.

amckay

02-15-2005, 09:43 PM

Cool shader! FYI - you don't necessarily need any blur plugins, just the electric texture is easier than modifying the noise shader. But if you adjust your levels in your noise texture you can get the same results.

Nice work!

-Allan McKay

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