poll: most powerful procedural in max

[Morbid Angel]

No plugins, just pure max what do you think is the most powerful procedural map in 3ds max?

[percydaman]

cellular for me, though i dont use it alot. I still probably just use the standard noise map the most out of all the procedurals.

[Dynedain]

Noise, deffinately noise.

[GeneCrucean]

Without a doubt, falloff. It still needs imporovement but it's one of my fav's.

[Morbid Angel]

nope and nope

[percydaman]

is this a test or a poll???

[percydaman]

Without a doubt, falloff. It still needs imporovement but it's one of my fav's.

I forgot about falloff, yeah its more powerful then cellular...

[Morbid Angel]

yeah i'd have to say its a rather question...then a poll

[GeneCrucean]

nope and nope

Haha... ummm. Yup.

[percydaman]

care to share what you think it is?

[Morbid Angel]

i think gradient ramp is most powerful and the reasons for that are:
ramp has color blending, noise, directions i.e. shadow/light, square, circular, mapped etc. It can be used to blend many maps for closeup to distance, the flags can be animated for texture growing effect...which im using to make cheracter freeze overtime.
http://www3.telus.net/public/vinnik8.../frosting_.mov
another example is by blending multiple gradients you can achieve pritty much any landscape shape:
http://www3.telus.net/public/vinnik8...eberg_1-41.mov


noise, fall off are also great maps but non of them can do as much as this

[percydaman]

true, the gradient ramp is pretty powerful but I dont use it much. When i need to animate it sure, but otherwise I just use a texture gradient, it uses alot less memory...

[davision]

another example is by blending multiple gradients you can achieve pritty much any landscape shape:

Morbid.... I've been known to use the Gradient Ramp, but I don't know what you mean by this? Can you explain a little please?

[Morbid Angel]

davision here is the quick scene i made for you to look at. Basicly, all you do is mix gradience in various modes with procedurals and get surface shapes with displacement.
http://www.funtik.com/dvinnik/grd_mix.rar (max 7 file)

[davision]

Thanks for posting that scene. It looks like a good method -- I didn't know you were also using scianacomp -- that's also a powerful (non-core) plugin.