damp earth theory @woomy@elekk.xyz

decided I am just gonna board up this account--follow @toroid@mastodon.art for my art posts and/or @toroidal for regular posts

decided I am just gonna board up this account--follow @toroid@mastodon.art for my art posts and/or @toroidal for regular posts

lutris also is giving errors that it hides too quickly when I try to put in one of the installers. so I guess I'm not playing this lol

welp

I was going to make this look dirtier but the render time started shooting way up and I wasn't paying attention to what I had done to make it take so long. so it looks a little cleaner than I wanted. but still, I think it looks Okay

the original tutorial uses the effect that gives me a stepped layered effect (a displacement material where you multiply a noise texture's strength by x, either floor() or ceiling() the value, then divide by x) and tries to use the same noise+fragmenting to apply color, but because of how you can't have infinite polygons, the exact noise texture can never be perfectly matched, so the color has spots where the approximation is off. so I just use the object texture coordinates and split the vector so I only get the z values, and do a similar fragmenting process (but tweaked slightly so the colors line up with the layers? I admit idk how to get it exactly but I just eyeballed the numbers)

original tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJW8aroznqM (there's a top comment explaining why the color and displacement is off better than I did lol)