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Can I get help with sand in DS3?

Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 221
edited December 2012 in The Commons

I'm using the DS3A as some of my shaders are older & don't play nice in 4. But I'm using an hourglass & trying to get the sand to looking good. As it is (even after changing sand textures & bumpmaps) it still looks really huge & needs help. Can I get advice on how I can fix this? Screenshot of the rendered sand from image is attached.it's shiny because of the glass shader I used on the hourglass. It is this hourglass that I used http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=59838 but I also scaled it kinda big so that I can fit a phoenix with it.

thankies much:)

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  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,982
    edited December 1969

    Have you tried tileing the sand portion at a higher number??

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,728
    edited December 1969

    Is it part of a texture, or is it a plain square of sand? If the latter you could increase the tiling repeats for the surface. otherwise you could look at using Shader Mixer to make a procedural sand.

    Which shaders is it that are keeping you from updating to DS4?

  • Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 221
    edited December 1969

    i used the Sha's Shortcut shaders by Sha for the glass & AFS Jewelry Plus by AngelsFury 2004 (rendo) on the metal trim-I couldn't remember if they worked in 4 lol(which I have it also) the sand texture that I'm using at moment is a square tile from Deviantart that I found.To be honest I have no idea how to make a shader or how to use the shader maker. (sad to say that)

  • Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 221
    edited December 1969

    But I did have trouble with DS4.5 with these shaders http://www.daz3d.com/shop/dld-high-gloss-metallic-shaders-for-ds on another project. They left the item they were used on a glaring white-did not render.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,982
    edited December 1969

    If the sand texture is just a plain picture of sand ,personally I'd take that into a paint program scale it to 500x500,then put it back,go to your surface tab,scroll down until you see the sand layer click on it then scroll down to the tileing,and change it from 1 to maybe 10 or higher on both the vertical and horizontal , then do a quikie render of the sand to see if that is the look that you want, if not tile to a higher number or lower depending on what you want.Oh ya I'd also take the base texture and greyscale it use that as a bump,be sure and increase the neg. and pos. numbers on the bump dial though.

  • Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 221
    edited December 1969

    been awhile so I'm doing crash course refresher on scaling in psp8 lol

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 3,982
    edited December 1969

    I only havw GIMP sooo don't think I can help much with that ...

  • Guardian Angel 671Guardian Angel 671 Posts: 221
    edited December 1969

    lol i mighta found a work around. I like the base on that 1 but I found an hourglass by calida that I had with sand good in Daz so i hid base on calida's hourglass & the stubborn parts on the other 1 & combined em.sneaky sneaky lol. Seeing if I can get it ta work.

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