Sparkly Snow shader

[Nik]

Hi, I wanna share my sparkly snow shader for static and animation.
Here's a pure render with Corona Glares enabled, nothing more. Bright sparkles are generated by CoronaSun which visible in reflections.

It's very simple as you can see.


I generated pyramids NormalMap for it, because I found that "Carpaint NGgons NormalMap" doesn't give me nice sparkles. Here is 100% crop of this texture.


And a flakes mask of course.

Download rar with all stuff

P.S. If somebody will find it useful please post your examples of this shader :)

[serch]

Neat! Thank you

[lacilaci]

Sparkling effect is nice, but your snow doesn't look like it's made of water.

[Nik]

I saw nice closeup snow shader with displace on forum but didn't see snow for distance renders so I made this one.
Do you think it needs some SSS?

BTW for animation we need a fast shader and I think SSS won't be fast

[lacilaci]

No, I think for distant snow in animation this could work...

[romullus]

Pretty neat, but sparkling is way too fast, too chaotic. Now sparkles appears in different place every single frame, while it should stick in the same place for 2-3 frames to get more pleasing view. Maybe lowering normal bump strength would help here?

[Nik]

Forgot to mention that I already finished a project with this snow and I just shared it :) so I actually don't need to improve it. But thanks anyway and maybe these advices will help people who download this shader or normalmap.