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Snow and Ice studies

Working on developing some winter terrain kits. Decided to start off by studying Ice sheets and piling snow. Tutorials and shared media by Daniel Thiger and Josh Lynch on gumroad were incredibly valuable when developing these systems. I aimed at developing a variety of transitions between snow piles and wind blasted gradients. The foundation of this system will be valuable when developing required snow piled onto rock faces and snow tracks later in the coming months.

If any of my scenes require a lake or frozen water I'd like to return and give the piece some stronger roughness values. Getting the environment reflection with the current balance is too subtle, but for evaluating the snow I feel this works well!

Standard

Standard

No piling snow

No piling snow

Wind blasted below zero

Wind blasted below zero

Piling and tracked snow

Piling and tracked snow

Fully piled tile

Fully piled tile

Graph Layout

Graph Layout