Slippery Slope WIP

[NWsenior07]

I've had this idea in the back of my head now for a couple of months and had done some playing with it, but school kind of took over. This image is a rough render to get an idea for things. I've got the final one going now, but I did increase the snow's coverage in the final run.

[lonewolf]

It has potential!

[Mr_Lamppost]

Looking good so far.

I like the clouds, I'm not sure how natural they look but does that matter?

[rcallicotte]

Keep working at it.  The lighting needs accentuation.  The snow could use a little more variety, maybe in thickness...or something.  Not much help, maybe.   

[Phylloxera]

This is a good start. The snow is not thick enough, the clouds were not realistic, but there is the potential!
While at work!

[NWsenior07]

Thanks for the input. I'm did some small tweaks to the snow and from what I can see so far, it looks as though things have improved slightly in terms of the depth. As for the clouds I agree that they don't look all that realisitic. I'm going to play with those once this render is done.

[NWsenior07]

This is the first high quality render. I like the snow on this a little better but it still needs work and I didn't do anything to the sky, so I'll come back to those in the next few days.

[Phylloxera]

The render  high quality is really better, but I think that the layer of snow is too fine !

[rcallicotte]

I agree with Phylloxera in that the snow doesn't have thick build up like it would naturally.

[Mr_Lamppost]

I agree, thicker snow.  And I still like the clouds the way they are. 

[NWsenior07]

I was wondering if this snow looked better. I tried applying a clip file I found lying around. I know its low quality but I think you can see a difference.

[Mr_Lamppost]

That new snow looks promising.

[rcallicotte]

Yes.  Some better.

In my observation, I'd say it would look a lot better with at least one PFS applied as a Blend Shader to the main terrain.  Rough it up a bit to add some variation in color and displacement.

[NWsenior07]

I upped the thickness of the snow even more and added another powerfractal shader to the terrain to give some more definintion to it.

[rcallicotte]

Starting to look much improved.  Keep working on it.  Sometimes I set aside a TGD for a few days or even weeks, then go back again.  This helps me, when I'm bogged down.  Anyway, I'd keep at this one, whether now or later.