Technical term that should exist: "scrottox"

Originally posted to Shawn Hargreaves Blog on MSDN, Friday, March 25, 2011

Noun:  "scrottox"

Definition:  The opposite of a detail texture.  Like a detail texture, scrottox is a monochrome image drawn using modulate2X blend mode, but where a detail texture is tiled more heavily than the base texture so as to provide fine detail when zoomed in close, a scrottox layer is tiled less heavily in order to provide coarse lumpiness when the view is zoomed out  (see screenshots at the end of this page).

Usage:  "That terrain texture looks horribly flat if you zoom the camera way out. Let's add a scrottox layer to fix that."

Etymology:  MotoGP made heavy use of scrottox layers, but we lacked a good name for them until one of the artists said "the purpose is to make things look dirty, grungy and wrinkled. Like a scrot*m, or a pair of bollocks."

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