Ice challenge?

[russe166]

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?

[elipsis1]

Looks good!

[bobbystahr]

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

[Kadri]

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.

[Tangled-Universe]

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.

[Dune]

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.

[choronr]

This is an attempt at ice I made back in 2011: http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,13667.msg134481.html#msg134481

[russe166]

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.

[Dune]

And one from me.

[bobbystahr]

And one from me.

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

[archonforest]

And one from me.

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

yeah same q here...

[russe166]

So I changed some settings ...

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But I cannot get rid of the shadow under the ice 

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