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Creating a snow material using procedural
textures
In this recipe, we will create a snow material, as shown in the following screenshot, and also
fake a slight and cheap Subsurface Scattering effect:
The snow material as it appears in the final rendering
Getting ready
Start Blender and open the
9931OS_Snow_start.blend
ile.
In this file, there is a prepared scene with a Spheroid (the usual Cube with a four-level
Subdivision Surface modifier), a Suzanne (press
Shift
+
A
and navigate to Add | Mesh
| Monkey) with a Subdivision Surface modifier as well, and the famous Stanford bunny
displaced, and smoothed Plane renamed
Snow_ground
. Suzanne is Blender's mascot and
an alternative to free test models such as the Stanford bunny itself. By the way, I thought of
grouping them in the same scene to have different shapes to test the material.
In the file, there is also a Plane working as mesh-light and a Spot pointing in the opposite
direction to try to enhance the translucency of the snow.