Procedural snake scales and cracked lava glow with nodes

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Volumetric factor for pseudo-volumetric material (Charcoal for Cycles)

In another thread, RickyBlender asked me if it would be possible to use what I showed to make charcoal for Cycles. I googled some images but, in the end, I decided to make something simple to test my node tree. I just dropped some geometry into a hole in the ground, tuned a bit my node tree and here is what I got: [image] All the “charcoal bits” were rigid bodies that I joined into a single object with a single material. For some reason, I find it the craziest procedural material I’ve ever c…