Anyone has an idea about good "snowy" shader ?

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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

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Here’s a start - http://www.neilblevins.com/cg\_education/sparkling\_snow/sparkling\_snow.htm

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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

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try the natural shaders, too…

best regards
themaxxer

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how well do they work with vray - i’ve never tried them…

DZL

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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

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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

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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