Sand texture / material

Sam Hatami

Hoy!

Anyone got any good ideas how to go about creating a texture like this :

http://www.travelblog.org/Wallpaper/pix/tb_mui_ne_sand_dunes.jpg

?

Its actually the height map I'm after. Taking a random sand dune photo and trying to take a height map from that kind of looses a bit of depth, or maybe I just can't find a good way doing it.

Any suggestions?

kodde

Image fail

Piflik

Sculpt some wavy lines on a plane. Done.

Mark Dygert

I put the ref image here in case anyone can't get it to come up.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2336353/tb_mui_ne_sand_dunes.jpg

I would probably do some sculpting but only after tossing a few modifiers on a plane.


Wave modifier.
Skew.
Noise, to give it some chaos.
Turbosmooth and noise again, to give it some micro sand details
Then sculpt to refine the edges and work the sand micro details.

You could use blend masks and displacements to make it tile but I'd probably just take the lazy way out and do it in photoshop.

maze

thats really cool Vig, and for taking the time to do it.

Sam Hatami

Aaaaah, thanks mr Vig, ill try that out