Do any of you super intelligent and realy nice people have any Ideas for making snow in poser???? (yes Im suckin up, and no Im now jokeing about the snow.) And please dont tell me to buy PS or PSP, or get GIMP. One, Im broke, two, I have GIMP, and its making me crazy. N~E~Way, any help will be rewarded with long life.(hopfully).

What kind of snow do you want? Snowdrifts, snow on windowsills, snow falling from the sky?

snow falling from the sky.

What version of Poser are you using?

pose 4 or 6

Big ass transmapped square with lots of dots all over it. Repeat as necessary.

http://ia300106.us.archive.org/1/items/Snow_4/snow.jpg

http://ia300142.us.archive.org/2/items/Globby_snow/snowblur.jpg

One is globbier-looking than the other.

Use the high-res square (Poser 6 primitives). Turn it 90 degrees, so it faces the camera. Then attach one of the textures to both the diffuse node and the transparency node.

Image is how it should be hooked up in the material room.

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=42154

Leigh, that looks great.

Scale the square until it's big enough to cover the whole scene, and make sure you set the specular node to zero and "cast shadows" off for the square.

I'm sure a real texturist could do better. A seamless texture would be great, because then you could tile the pattern if you wanted smaller flakes.

Bookmark, "How to make confetti"

I live in Montana and so I have a rough idea what snow looks like.

But hey, that is REALLY COOL confetti.

Attached Link: http://loftydesigns.net/host/snow.jpg

Attached Link: http://www.vanderlee.com/plugins.html

Thanks folks, I`m gonna give it a try. See how much hair Ipullout. LOL johnny

1. Get dummies-level modelling metasquoia lite version (free) 2. Use Blob function and select copy mode - make an nice clump of fallen snow to suit your taste 3. Export as DXF 4. Import the DXF into your poser scene, apply material settings as you think fit (pink snow ?) 4. Arrange onto your scene, add or make more fallen snow props in metasequoia and import as per above.

just a random thought, skip the texture map, use a noise node you can easily set how "dense" snow is by changing values i use the same setup for making stary background in my pics ofcourse i add a bit more, considering its space :) but anyways, noise node, the snow would vary in size/density

Can you post a screenshot of your material settings for that? I tried it, but couldn't get it to work right.

ok this site is on its last breath -_- pic didnt post? noise node, max 1, min -20 put into value1 of a math node (not color), value1 1, value2 0 feed that into transperency value, set to 1, and tada!

oh sure NOW pic shows up -.-

Once again thanks for all your help.

I know how to turn snow yellow ;-)

I already know how to do that, and I dont need pOser either. But, as far as making snow, I went to rdna and got volumetric snow. Plus I used Arcadias jpg.

LOL it makes great popsicles

There's also the Python:Weather Kit located in the freestuff utilities section that can be used to make snow,rain and such for stills or for animations.

Oh, wow, I'm so glad I dropped in on this thread. I've got a book cover request and it's got a snow scene in it, and I was wondering just how I was going to go about creating that... :-) bonni

...but how do you make it snow in Pasadena, CA? (bookmark)

Martial, that looks great! Operaguy, with snow comes cold weather.... doubt you would be able to handle temperatures of -54 degrees Farenheit for weeks at a time, which is what we were getting last winter. We've had snow for about a month now, and there is plenty more coming before April.

whoa. We get upset when it reaches 54 ABOVE! Acadia....that's in Nova Scotia, right?

I'm in Manitoba. 54 degrees is beach weather! LOL

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Attached Link: http://bonmot.ca/~daniel/040220/

Our city was shut down for almost 3 days and people were using snow mobiles down major streets. It took my friend and I a whole day to dig away the snow that was blocking the front door. The snow drift was up to the top and over the front of the house. We were literally trapped inside our house.

We had to remove the storm window from the door and started digging away the snow using a plastic pail and plastic kids shovel. After a whole day we managed to clear enough snow so that we could climb through the window and start clearing it off the landing and sidewalk. It took us 4 days, and finally the guy across the street came by with his scoop shovel to finish it. When it was all said and done, our lawn had snow piles that were over 6 feet tall on either side of the sidewalk. And the snow wasn't completely melted until June.

Here is a good example of what we typically get here in an average winter. With major storms like the 1986 one, there is way more snow than that.

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That's a whole lot of snow! I've been to Houghton and the Keweenaw Peninsula, but it wasn't in the winter. It was towards the end of March. There was some snow, but not a whole lot. The last time I was in Michigan was a couple of years ago when I went to Detroit, and man, was it HOT!!!

BKMRK

EDIT: OOOPS! Never mind! I had the snow casting shadows :)

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do r/l snowflakes cast shadows? 

Attached Link: Snarlygribbly's Snow Machine

Thanx for the link to the snow machine, although the OP started this thread 5 years ago. Here is the link to Ockham's current version of the Weather Kit...

 http://ockhamsbungalow.com/PPP/Weather2.zip

Misty,

Large snowflakes can cast a shadow when they are close to a surface, but if there is any accumulation the indirect light overwhelms it.  Also, it is usually cloudy when it snows, so there is diffuse illumination, which leads to very diffuse shadows.

I have a feeling that this thread will be comming more active with Rendo's Xmas contest on the way

ColdWinter here on rmp has a really nice snowfall prop. and has a density dial.

Just browsing my hard drive and came across the snow image and realized that the link to it was broken. 

So here it is in case anyone wants to use it. I'll also upload it to my free stuff area.