Posted on September 29, 2014

Ever since Lightwave added their own Instancing engine, I’ve thought it would be cool to add real stones to my “Karesansui dry garden. The original used a displaced plane to simulate the raked gravel.

This new version uses over 4 million instances to create the “gravel sea”.

I’ve also subdivided the stones so they look a bit more hi-res. Not sure if I should mess with the background or not. I’ve done some experiments but anything I add back there seems to steal focus from the foreground.

Let me know what you think! So many different applications for instances…