Creating Natural Materials in Cycles - Blender Cycles Materials and Textures - page 128

Creating an ice material using procedural
textures

In this recipe, we will create a semi-transparent ice material that will look like this:

The ice material as it appears in the final rendering

Getting ready

Start Blender, load the 9931OS_start.blend file, and perform the following steps:

1. Delete the UV/Image Editor window by joining it with the 3D view.

2. Select the Plane item, go to Edit Mode, and scale it eight times bigger (press Tab ,

then press S , enter the digit 8 , and press Enter ). Go out of Edit Mode and move the
Plane 1 unit upward (press Tab , then press G , enter the digit 1 , press Z , and finally,
press Enter ).