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HSH

06-03-2005, 12:34 AM

I've been trying to create a hyper-realistic sand shader. I tried creating the shader using Cheen and then Nukei, but failed at even creating a shader that even resembles sand. Can anybody help me out? I like to create my own shaders, for anything I do, but if somebody has already created a really good looking shader, can they share it, just for learning purposes. Thanks in advance. :)

hundredthirtyseven

06-03-2005, 07:00 AM

There is a good sand shader in the Cinema install pack. Somewhere in the "3rd party materials" folder.

jerm

06-03-2005, 04:53 PM

Don't remember if it was here or the PF, but someone posted a really nice sand shader awhile back. You might search around a little.

damyorga

06-03-2005, 05:24 PM

This guy has some nice sand textures for download on his site

http://www.mikelima.de/mikelima/download/

AkaKico

06-03-2005, 05:37 PM

I've had pretty good luck making sand, I'd play with putting "random" type noise in the bump channel at a very low setting, the key is to render it out with a higher min/Max Antialiasing.

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