I didn't want to continue polluting kimaera's challenge thread with crap about snow so thought I'd start a new thread here.
Just thought I'd share with you all some experiments in making a snow material. First 2 images were my first attempt at snow, firstly without SSS and then with SSS. The one with SSS looks better I think, makes the other one look grey and boring.
The third image was a slight advancement in the material in that I added some bump (
3dsmax speckle map) to try and make it sparkle a bit. I also changed the particles to get more and smaller blobs - trying to make it look more like snow and less like shaving foam!. The great thing about using berconmetaballs is that you can experiment to your hearts content without having to wait hours for max to mesh the particles.
link to plugin (you need to be registered on the vray forum though - its a plugin for vray)
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...nMetaball-1-10