Oh yes! I have plenty of gradient y, wrinkles, granite, color maps, normal maps,  &
anything else
you  can throw in the soup. I will say I do have a pretty good looking dirt. I made a
gif that is
almost white with some plasma in it for the height field. It is a little tricky making
two height
fields for a cliff background & one for the ground. Now my next dilemma is the scales
on the
dragon. I am pondering different methods that might work. I have this gut feeling I
might need to
make the main shape & then add the scales one by one. I don't think any of the normals
will give
me what I am looking for. I thought about a bitmap but even if I had one it wouldn't
give me the
layered look. Sorry if this all sounds so elementary but I have only been at this for
about 5
months. Not very long in PovRay time.

Thanks again for your help,
Kathy

Bob wrote:

> A dragon eh? Sounds good. I should have mentioned the practicality of using a
matching
> 'image_map' or texture (such as 'gradient y' 'color_map') for the 'height_field'
too.
> Although maybe you had thought of it by now or would have anyway. Can make the
> variations much more visible.
>
> Kathy Overland wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the advice! I think height field is the way to go with this one. I
tried normals
> > & can't get the look that I want. I want just the brown soil look but a little
rocky. I have
> > two height fields intersecting to form the rock cliff for my background. It makes
it look
> > like you are looking into a corner. Hopefully there will be a dragon standing in
the corner
> > when I am finished.
> > Thanks,
> > Kathy
> >

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