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Title: Ice challenge?
Post by: russe166 on June 16, 2014, 08:46:31 AM
Hi!

I was wondering if there is an interest in making the best ice that can be achieved with Terragen 3.
So I have added a .tgd file which shows the ice that I ended up with for now, but I could imagine ice that has cracks or illumination and so on...

What does your ice look like?
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: elipsis1 on June 16, 2014, 08:54:17 AM
Looks good!
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: bobbystahr on June 16, 2014, 09:51:27 AM
Cool ice man...but I think I'll wait for a really hot day before I start playing with ice. After the winter we had up here in the mostly frozen north even remembering ice gives me a chill, heh heh heh
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: Kadri on June 16, 2014, 10:24:35 AM

http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,15711.msg152734.html#msg152734
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,14558.msg142107.html#msg142107
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,8647.msg92496.html#msg92496
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,11299.0.html

There are others too probably of course.
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: Tangled-Universe on June 16, 2014, 10:27:46 AM
This is the best I got.
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,11280.msg115611.html#msg115611

I have some new ideas, but haven't had the time to get to work on them.

Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: Dune on June 17, 2014, 08:04:33 AM
The difficulty with ice is that you easily get grainy shadows/reflections when using the internal color (probably due to the render subdivision settings.... I think). Try adding a pole sticking out of the ice  and see what happens. It may be better to use a merge shader to merge subtle ice colors with the water shader.
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: choronr on June 17, 2014, 11:34:35 AM
This is an attempt at ice I made back in 2011: http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,13667.msg134481.html#msg134481
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: russe166 on June 17, 2014, 11:49:54 AM
Thanks for the replies and the links!

It think it is a bit tricky with the ice.

Below is the latest attempt to freeze my Alien.
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: Dune on June 18, 2014, 02:27:36 AM
And one from me.
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: bobbystahr on June 18, 2014, 09:39:41 AM
Quote from: Dune on June 18, 2014, 02:27:36 AM
And one from me.

O K, I'll bite...what's going on there?
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: archonforest on June 18, 2014, 09:56:28 AM
Quote from: bobbystahr on June 18, 2014, 09:39:41 AM
Quote from: Dune on June 18, 2014, 02:27:36 AM
And one from me.

O K, I'll bite...what's going on there?

yeah same q here...
Title: Re: Ice challenge?
Post by: russe166 on June 18, 2014, 10:46:47 AM
So I changed some settings ...

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But I cannot get rid of the shadow under the ice  >:(

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