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profbetis
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How powerful are the procedural textures? Could we potentially make completely procedural models via volumetrics? Like fractal terrain with no polygons? What about complex models like the Mandelbulb?
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profbetis wrote:How powerful are the procedural textures? Could we potentially make completely procedural models via volumetrics? Like fractal terrain with no polygons? What about complex models like the Mandelbulb?
No, at least not in the beginning.
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