Thanks for the comments and rep everyone


Quote Originally Posted by waldronate View Post
You might be interested in http://www.textureshading.com/Home.html and http://www.shadedrelief.com/banff/texture_shading.pdf for ideas on getting a finer etched relief on some of the hillshading. I mention this because I pushed the basic texture shading code into Wilbur in the last release as seen at https://cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=36031 (true, it's just some pictures).
this texture shader method for hillshades is really interesting, i'll give it a try for sure!