Thread: Messing with Volcanos

Originally Posted by jfrazierjr

If you have not already, try it with 50% gray and white instead of black and see what you think. I think it really helps to get rid of the "shadow" effect after you bump map the whole thing in the final "picture" Then you have less manual blending to do to get the colors drawn down, or at least I think so.

Yeah... I hadn't thought of doing the gradient from gray-to-white instead of black-to-white. But I had figured out that the dark blacks at the edge were what were giving me the occasional "floating mountain" problem.