Tweaking

Continued tweaking of the light model and displacement maps

At this point I moved to a low quality model with vector displacement.  Houdini 12 hates vector displacement, I only got it working with help from Ethan.  It messed with my regular displacement maps, so those need more work.

Light

Add light with a shading model, and tweak, tweak, tweak

Displacement Shading

The next step is to finalize the basic shader and add displacement.

Blueberry progress

Still working on the basic pattern.  At the same time I mutated a sphere in mudbox to get the final model.

Shader Programming

I present for you... a blueberry.

Our first project for shaders class is to make a fruit using mostly noises in Houdini.  I'm going to recreate this-