Tis' the Season

[Cocateho]

Here's my Christmas/winter render. Merry Christmas to everyone!

[DocCharly65]

Wow! This is very very beautiful in my eyes.

How did you create the snowy trees?

[masonspappy]

Love the tree!

[Cocateho]

Thank you! The trees are larchs, dandelO's I believe although I couldn't find the name in the file folder. I just edited the shader using gimp to give it a snowy appearance.

[choronr]

Very good; and, a Merry Christmas to you.

[Cocateho]

A little update, added more snow on the mountains and tweaked the foreground, not sure which I like better.

[Oshyan]

I think I like the most recent iteration. There's a nice, soft, almost "fluffy" feeling to those trees. Not photoreal per se, but quite appealing. The bark texture does need some work though, it's almost as if the UV mapping is off or something...

- Oshyan

[RedSquare]

+1

[pclavett]

Lovely viewpoint and the mountains are just right !
Trees are nice....where did you get them
Love the grasses through the snow !
Excellent !
Paul

[Cocateho]

Lovely viewpoint and the mountains are just right !
Trees are nice....where did you get them
Love the grasses through the snow !
Excellent !
Paul

Thanks! The trees are dandelO's Larch, which I went in and edited the shaders. The snow (the bottom layer at least) is also dandelO's with another surface layer on top to smooth it out and make it look soft and fresh. Come to think of it I should about just credit dandelO with the scene  haha. I've always had trouble making any sort of detailed winter scene, that snow shader really helped I was really pretty happy overall.

Oshyan- The bark was guess work and a bit of trial and error. The snow is really just painted on the shader using Gimp, but the way the image was set up it was really hard to tell how it would be distributed on the tree:
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One of these days I'll have to sit down and learn how to create my own objects for these scenes instead of all these freebie objects(which I'm still very grateful for) off the internet that usually weren't intended for quite the scene I'd like to use them in. 

[N-drju]

Aaaah! Lovely.

[Cocateho]

Reworked this project with a shot at a bit more realism in mind, but also playing around with the file I made for snow on trees, Seems to work fairly well on bark too, although I did tweak it to make the distribution a bit "softer".

[Dune]

Looks good. You can use the slope (final +Y) to get snow only on 'horizontal' branches; use a fairly broad slope (70-90º) and soft fuzzy zone (30-40). I would also suggest slightly less translucency/luminosity  in the tree snow, and some color variation, more bluish tints, like shadowed areas.
I really like the soft snow on the ground.

[bobbystahr]

Reworked this project with a shot at a bit more realism in mind, but also playing around with the file I made for snow on trees, Seems to work fairly well on bark too, although I did tweak it to make the distribution a bit "softer".

Very nice man...heed the Dune I think...and thanks for reminding me of this lovely tree. I've gone back in the thread and dl'd your snow map so thanks for that.

[TheBadger]

The last one works well for me. Much better really.