Ice-cream

[minoli_cg]

Kind of a strange on, but I have the awesome assignment of rendering some ice-cream in a glass cup. Any ideas on how to achieve a realistic icecream look?

Thanks

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Ice-cream

I honestly have no idea, but I'd go down to my local ice cream shop to do some research and get some reference photos

[jrharvey]

Re: Ice-cream

I would most likely use some type of displacement map. Here is a quick image of ice cream that I found that MAY work for you. You may have to make your own based on what you want.

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Ice-cream

That looks like a pretty darn good map for ice cream. You do have to be careful about how you map the image on to the scoop. Using that map with a spherical projection (within the mapping types, not the version used for environments) will lead to the poles being really messed up. If you could stretch it over the scoop, so that it only pinches at the bottom (where there will be the cone or it will be on top of another scoop) than you might get less distortion