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Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:02 pm**

some tests of a snow material for large surfaces.
Same material different lighting.
C&C are welcome.

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:28 pm**

daros - Wow, I think the texture of it is beautiful! only thing that's missing is the tiny crystal sparkle...add that , if possible, and it's perfect.

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:46 pm**

Very nice!

I like the direct sunlight shots the best. It doesn't look as convincing in the cloudy hdr lighting.

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:19 pm**

Very good!

But I agree - the sparkles would make it even better.

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:32 pm**

Excellent daros

At least on iphone this looks already perfect to me
Icome from austria and the snow here looks exactly like in your renders!

Any hints how you made it?
Normalmaps all?

Alsi i love the skyimages, are this commercial hdris, they fit very nice to the scene. Somhoe it looks like a mixture between maxwellsky and real clouds...

Cheers
Stefan

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:28 pm**

I find they are perfect. I see some sparkles in the last one and find they are enough. I think more would be too much.

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:41 pm**

Thanks to all for the comments.
i wasn't able to add correctly the sparkles to this material. May some else can try this out with more success.

here are the textures:
http://updown.stack-studios.com/nextlimit/snow.rar

here are the settings:
layer blending is additive.

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:56 pm**

Your snow material looks great already even without sparkles Daros

i'm curious about this strange looking materialeditor you use. Could you tell us more about it ? it looks interesting

Btw, sparkles are a bitch to get them to work well. I did it once, and will never do it again

/ Max

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:44 am**

Maximus3D wrote: i'm curious about this strange looking materialeditor you use. Could you tell us more about it ? it looks interesting

If I don't remember bad that's "matador" isn't it?

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:42 am**

Thanks for sharing your snow texture daros!

Cheers, Ron

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:30 am**

the interface is from felix, daros own render system. you find on his website.
looks very interesting

by the way daros.
i wanted to test felix sometime but never got an email back, i tried several times last months, maybe they get spam filtred?

best greetings
stefan

p.s thanks for sharing the texture!

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:11 pm**

where are the snow speeders and tauntauns??

nice snow, btw

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:31 pm**

Great Snow! And thanks for sharing!