[Maximus3D]

As most of you already seen in the displacement thread i started working on a snow material for Maxwell yesterday and now i'm soon finished with it so here comes a bunch of various testrenderings of it in action. I set ISO to 100 on all renderings to get a better idea of how the material behaves in all types of conditions.

Click on any of the thumbnails below to view them fullres.

Snow with single emitter plane


Snow with Physical Sky and Sun at 08.00am (sunrise)


Snow with Physical Sky and Sun at 10.45am this morning


Snow with Physical Sky and Sun at 18.00pm (sunset)


Snow with SkyDome and Sun


Snow with Physical Sky and Sun at 12.00 (midday)


Snow with Skydome and Single Emitter


Snow with Dosch HDR as enviroment, reflection and background (RADSKY-017.hdr)


More examples will be posted in a while as soon as they finished rendering.

/ Max

[Hervé]

all we need now is good old Santa... I think he lives not far from you ...

[Mattia Sullini]

Wow Max, it already behaves great!

[simmsimaging]

That is working very well Max - nice job.
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[Maximus3D]

Hervé: Hehe yeah, next up is a Santa shader

Thanks alot guys i'm glad you all like it and i have to agree that from what i can see in these tests it seems like it behaves quite well. What's left is some final tweaking and a realistic test with a full scene using this snow material so i can see how it works "for real".

One thing that bothers me a little bit is that the surface feels to "flat" and smooth, it should be a bit rougher but it's not that easy to do that and get good results. And the flakes aren't 100% accurate, i might have to create a new map for that..

/ Max

[Tyrone Marshall]

Bravo Max! I have been following this development and it is going very well, the simulation is exciting to see!

[iker]

That's a great job Maximus

[Olivier Cugniet]

already great material Max

[Mr Whippy]

That looks very nice in all lighting situations

Nice work

Dave

[ivox3]

Its working Max, ... you can let the snowman take 5. lol..

[glebe digital]

Great work.

[numerobis]

very coool material max - looks very good!

[4 HeRo]

cool material Max great work

[Maximus3D]

Tyrone, iker, Olivier, Whippy, ivox, glebe, numerobis and 4 Hero. Thanks so much all of you!!

Tyrone: Good to hear you like it

Whippy: Yep it seems to work in most situations i can put it in, but i'm sure that in real life if you use it in a scene it won't work at all that would be my usual luck.

ivox: Hehe, but i'm afraid Mr Snowman melted because it took so long to render these images. He just couldn't remain frozen all those hours.. :/

[Edit] : I made a new sparkles map and ran a quick testrender using it, it works quite nice so far



/ Max

[d7mcfc]

That looks beautiful!

Maybe the the resolution of the snow flakes should be upped on the ground, they look a bit big. I presume exactly the same material, just scaled up?

Can't wait to see the finished result, your material skills are escalating recently!