Need help with snow shader sparkles

[moony]

maybe have a look at this thread - particularly Secrop’s post

Sparkling Snow - using microdisplacements

Did some experiments, but not extensivelly… I’m quite satisfied with the normal directions, thought there’s more room to improve the shape for each ‘flake’. Again, I don’t have snow around me to observe, so it’s a bit more difficult to set good values for reflected/transmited/absorbed light. Also, there are lot’s of different types of snow, so I don’t think just one shader group could address all of them… (Right now it looks a bit more like sugar/salt, but I suspect that’s because of the distr…