"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
>
> What you could try to do is combine the two textures, in particular to keep
> yours with the scale effect of the other one. That should not be too
> difficult imo.

No, that should not be too difficult indeed. However, I don't think it would
look too good, or at least, that it won't look that biologically plausible.
Scales to me suggest that they have grown independently, which would make a
continuous pattern across the scales seem unnatural. I am not a biologist
though. However, the quick googling I have done so far for images of reptiles
and turtles with scales with a camouflage pattern seems to confirm this. Scales
can be patterned, but the pattern does not extend across the scales. This is I
think a bit more difficult to model as a texture, but probably also won't look
as nice. Still, I'd like the resulting texture to be somewhat biologically
plausible...

Cheers,
Erwin

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