Deserted Third

[zoggop]

http://springfiles.com/spring/spring-ma ... rted-third

[Funkencool]

Nicely done. I definitely prefer this one to the old one.

The metal spots also look much better than the previous shot

[zoggop]

and then i turned off advmapshading and hit f1 where i found HEIGHTMAP STEPPING (of the 8bit variety). i forgot mapconv only likes .raw for 16 bit
fixed in springfiles upload (v2 now)

[zoggop]

v3! goal of this map seems to be the blingiest metal spots

[zoggop]

shinies

[Jools]

Wow! How did you do that? Specular light?

[zwzsg]

Are you sure sand is that shiny?

[smoth]

some is.

[zoggop]

i was hoping for vein of metallic rock rather than inexplicably shiny band of sand

(jools, yes, i'm trying out a specular map based on height stratification)

[Forboding Angel]

Wow! How did you do that? Specular light?

Yeah, that's what I started doing on my maps a while back... just use specular to make metal spots obvious. It's a good method.

[zoggop]

v4

i got rid of the shiny veins, giving them splats that looked fitting but didn't clash with the rest of the map was driving me insane. the other rationale was, the shiny spots should signal metal value.