Thank you for all your feedback so far.

Some of the suggestions are still under consideration, others have been incorporated into build 008, available for download at the same URL as the original download.

Please read the 'Build 008 changes' file included in the zip.

I just had another suggestion for an addition.. how about 3 default colors for snow or sand? The current snow color setting is fine, but having one in lace for sand might be nice.

(Also sand might need a slightly diferent complete node setup button.)

Since the principle is pretty much the same, might as well add that second material oppertunity as well, eh?

It'd be nice to have some presets. Of couse, it's more than just the colour: SSS, specular and reflectivity settings will all need to change too.

I'd interested to see if anyone can come up with some good settings for alternate materials using the new options in build 8. The settings can be saved (File menu' and shared here, perhaps? If we get some good ones I could add a presets menu to implement them without  having to load a saved file.

What do you think?

That sounds good to me. (Crossposted with a PM)

I also sent a PM to BB about that issue we were discussing. He might have some voodoo hokum node math that could resolve the issue.

Well, you know what I want...Wax.  Hehe.  Other ideas for materials would be things like thick liquid types. Like jelly, foam, slime, glue, etc.  Viscous liquids would work well with this type of script imho.

No voodoo for displacement - vector displacement is implemented in Firefly, but not exposed. There is no way to use it.

Maybe we need to gang up on SM and complain?

SOFT BODY COLLISION PHYSICS.

Whoops. This is the snow thread. Sorry, i got carried away.

how would animation work, i wonder. You could seed the space above a scene with tiny primitives and snowize them. Then you'd have to kevframe them to fall....hmm, different speeds and angles, hmmmmm......they can';t fall straight down, they have to "wander" a little...hmmmm......make them build up on the ground....hmmmm...too many objects in the scene.....hmmmmmm

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Sand would be nice, if you looking for stuff other than snow.

Just testing. Before and after ... (click on images for full size)

That shoe house came out looking great!

Wow, that looks really great.

Attached Link: Facing the Deathwolf

Nice shoe house! Where'd you find it?

Quote - Nice shoe house! Where'd you find it?

http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/the-old-shoe?item=4199

I've uploaded a new build (009)

Changes:

• Facility to switch off SSS on the snow for faster renders
• New distribution option ('Everything') - puts snow on, well ..everything
• Default sky colours modified
• Better support for the new grouping option in Poser
• Some minor presentation changes

Same URL as before.

Thank you, Snarly!

Its a Wintry Warcow-ish day here.

Nice gareee. That's the kind of image that makes all the effort worthwhile!

Cool :-)

The real trick is matching your lighting to the background. I had had too much shadowing coming in from a light with a node attached to it, but for a quickie test it was fine.

I would love to use this wonderful script, I had installed it to PP2012 on iMac but it did not work.

It does work in PP2010 on my iMac though:(

Build 012 uploaded. Same download location as usual.

Contains bug fixes (status bar updates, actor name when parented)

Also, a behaviour change: the current actor no longer receives snow if it hidden. previously the current actor always received snow regardless of its hidden status.

An Mac version of the script is now included ('SSM2MAC'). This version is highly experimental and probably unstable. However, if you are a Mac user, please test it :-)

This version is that last Alpha version. If no significant problems are reported over the next few days I'll make it a beta version and start getting the documentation ready.

Looking forward to this release!

There was no special lighting used, and different items got different settings to get a little variety.  I thought the road came out great.  I wanted the sign that says "Book Store" to have a little snow on the front, but I couldn't get it to work for me.  Is it possible?

Please tell me that I am not alone in trying to figure out ice.  I can't seem to get it right (there is no ice in this image).  Is it the lighting I am using?

The snow machine has an "ice" setting under the advanced tab.  Have you tried using it?

Yes.  No problem there and I love having the ability.  I just don't think my lighting is right in order to make it really pop.

Any ideas?

My original image was 700x525, but the forum changed it to 400x300.  I thought 700x525 would fit.  Any ideas on how to make it appear bigger?  As you can tell, this is my first image posting at Renderosity.

Forum posts are limited in size.  You can use a photo editor, like Irfanview, to reduce it yourself.

Have you tried playing with the reflectivity settings and SSS?  (Presuming you're using Poser Pro 2012, of course . . .)

Bugfix update to build 013 uploaded.

I've also designated this build a beta build, i.e. the feature set won't change now until after this version is released. I've had some good ideas suggested for improvements, and they will be considered for a future v2.1 release.

Download URL is the same as previous ones.