Anyone has an idea about good "snowy" shader ?

[czaps]

I hava a quick task and shader in the title should be good , really good.
Do U think I should focuse on standard vray mat or go into deep into SSS simulation or so.... ???

czaps

[joconnell]

Here's a start - http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educat...kling_snow.htm

[czaps]

thank You for a help link. Neil Blevins is Guru in CG stuff as everyone knows so I should check at his website first....

thanks Joconnell

czaps

[themaxxer]

try the natural shaders, too...

best regards
themaxxer

[DZL]

try the natural shaders, too...

best regards
themaxxer

how well do they work with vray - i've never tried them...

DZL

[instinct]

i played with the demo a while back...they basically work fine but they tend to be a bit bitchy to tweak for low rendertimes due to their displacement. It´s needed to look good, but it uses max displacement (so in vray it uses the "default displacement" override). Tends to get a bit slow...but looks nice in a lot of cases...some controls seem a tad confusing at times.

Thorsten

[Candelero]

I would also recommend you try the DarkTree shaders.
I have done some snow tests with it and the result was really great.

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[czaps]

Thanks all for help.... i've solved a problem ...maybe it's not so perfect solution but just accurrate for the time/quality purposes /// I've used standard vray material and played with transluency, reflection and fog color , basing on dirty white color as a base wit some help from Neil's site with procedural noise as a bump. As soon as I'll finish this staff I'll put here a small samples what I've achieved with this technique. THX

czaps