Short: Dried mud surface rendered with Essence II Architecture: generic Brian Ridout had asked on the Imagine Mailing list about methods to make the appearance of dried mud on a lakebed. I couldn't pass up the temptation: I used Essence II to produce a dried mud appearance on a flat plane. The mud is made with two textures; Vein3 (an Organic texture) makes the random cracks, and Pitted adds a slight eroded effect to give the surface some small scale roughness. -Steve spworley@netcom.com