Jarrod Hasenjäger's Snow Material in Blender

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Snow material testing

I tried recreating Jarrod Hasenjäger’s Snow Material that he made in Alderon.

Keep in mind, I really don’t have much experience in rendering or material making. I kinda get the gist of what most of the nodes do, but its mostly just me playing around.

My computer is also pretty slow, so sorry for the poor quality

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Two things i wanted to go for:

  1. Round, bumpy base displacement.

    • I had trouble getting the basic displacement to have broader bumps. If I fooled around with it too much it would really distort the mesh

  2. Sparkles

    • the noise sparkles looked ok on the torus, but i couldn’t spot them on the sphere. The sparkles were pretty frustrating. In Jarrod’s post he said he used a noise displacement with limited range as a mask, but I dont really know how to do that in blender haha.

anyway thanks for reading, appreciate any thoughts : )

edit:

Node overview in better quality

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And if you want to check out the file:

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It looks good. You have to put a bigger image of the node setup however, so as it is now is difficult to discern its composition.

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would be nice to upload a file
nodes set up is hard to read

but beginning to look nice

is this for cycles and EEVEE ?

happy bl

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I edited the post with a better image and a file as well!

This is made in cycles in 2.8 :slight_smile:

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Thank you, I updated the post with a better image + a file!

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removed by popular demand

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Big thanks for this one :dizzy_face:

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on Win10 I cannot download file from Pastal
can someone upload the file here in a post or PM it to me

I tried to redo nodes set up but doe snot seem to give a nice render
must have some parameters missing or wrong

thanks
happy bl