Helgard opened this issue on Jun 13, 2008 · 57 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 14 June 2008 at 9:59 AM
I've been tweaking a snow shader off-and-on for a few months. A realistic snow shader is almost the same as a realistic skin shader. It needs to have gamma correction and subsurface scattering, or it won't look real. A naive skin shader looks like plastic, and a naive snow shader looks like styrofoam.
I'm not saying I moved away from styrofoam yet - my wife just declared to me that this render is of styrofoam. Still I'm making progress. It's 20 nodes so far, most of it very similar to my VSS skin shader.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)