That's a very flattering mention! Especially considering who else is on the list Thanks, John!

I think Hummel's Winter terrain shader is a great example of artistic shader programming. Each layer is blended and rendered differently, showing artistic discretion in the development of a shader for a specific purpose. This is why, to me, shader programming is the perfect marriage of artistry and coding and, in the right hands, an engine with a great shader programming environment (such as A8, IMO) has the advantage over an engine with a great selection of built-in shaders but a more difficult shader programming environment (some other engines).

Once again, Hummel, great work! And correct me if you actually just wrote an uber generic terrain shader that somehow managed to produce your winter terrain by simply changing a few parameters and textures.