Hi,  Does anyone know how to get snow on the top of a mountain rather than all the terrain presets which seem to have snow at the bottom and rock at the top?

I've been playing around with altitude and spline + altitude and fiddling with the filter, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Help?

If you have Bryce 6, go into the 'Rocks' section of the MATs and choose 'Rogue snow'. This has all the settings you need, and then you could adjust it to taste.

I just did a simple test using one of the preset snow mats(First Snow). All I did is go into the texture source editor  and changed all 4  components to "altitude". . Then open up the filter dialogue and put a bead in component 3 on the filter dialogue box. Then type in the following values in the filter orientation fields.

a) -20
b)  2
c)  2

Click out of there, then click transformation tools and adjust Y axis on the scale controls to about 80. The higher the number you put in here the lower the snow ridge will be on your terrain.

Hope you understand this, if you have any problems I can post some screen shots.

I think Agent Smith had a couple of those.

@croowe: Please do post some screenshot. I tried to do it but I couldn't figure out what you were talking about.

@croowe: Never mind, I finally figure it out... You have to do it greater than 80 to get the full snow capped effect.

I think this should be a backroom topic as this could come in handy with others trying to create a snow capped mountain scape. Interesting.....

You know you learn something new every time you open the DTE :ohmy:

Thanks croowe, I found I had to reduce the Y frequency down to 11 though, as 80 covered everything.

Bryster, yeah I'm sure AS had a couple of snow effect mats, using multiple textures in one mat, very nice they were too but I can't find them and I know I used to have them... once.

I found that if you don't change all the components to "Altitude" then you just get a very fine sprinkling of snow on all the peaks, but only on the very tops of the peaks. 

I also got quite a nice effect just changing the first component to "Altitude", no need to change the filters but I did need to reduce the Y frequency of the mat to 10 or around there, this gave me lots of snow on the high peaks covering the mountains down to about 1 3rd of their height plus some sprinkles on the lower peaks as well, very nice indeed!

Thanks very much croowe, for pointing me in the right direction.