Realistic Ice texture

[LucentDreams]

if the reflections are your main concern thats easy to fix, use fusion to mix different nosies together, I would do a tre of four noises at least to get a nice and random effect going

try to vary the global scale contrast and such in each to make a nice mixture of noises. should create a relly interesting bump, another thing that would help is to also have a subtle smooth displacement map for some nice truly deformed reflections from the mesh.


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[arthur]

Hi Kai

thanks for getting back to me so quickly, I am using C4D vs 7. I am confused when you say 'fusion' do you mean 'mix with other textures'. Don't mean to sound stupid but are we talking about C4D?

Dan

[ThirdEye]

He means Bhodinut Fusion, it's in the SLA channels in the material editor

[arthur]

Hi ThirdEye_01

thanks for that, however it seems I don't have 'Smells Like Almonds' where would I get hold of it.

Also do you think I could achieve a realistic ice quality with additive textures alone?

regds

[LucentDreams]

need to read the manual it seems, SLA is there in XL 7 as a standard part of the program. Perhaps a read through of the manual might get you started on a better foot ;)

[arthur]

Okay looks like I need to update to 7.3

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