making LAVA light :D
the model is nowhere near done but the mood is coming along real nice

I learned from an electrical accident up north that high energy outlets will turn soil/sand to bubbly glass (an error in the electrical net caused an underground 1½-inch wire to burn and turn a foot's worth diameter of soil around it to glass) that should probably be the look I will go for when I get that far; the lava causing glass to boil up around the vent in the middle of the room

(super metroid again)
3ds max

I had the lava self-illuminate, but it didn't cast light far enough so I had to put a light source into it; however the lava diffuses it nicely so you can't see the light inside there.

The cracks are just me having fun - I sort of don't feel they fit THIS room so I might use them later; instead just the bubbling.