ice tutorials

[Dave Black]

Welcome to the forums!!

:beer:

Ok, I'll take a stab at this one.

The trick to making Ice is first, using a raytrace material. The second thing you'l need to concentrate on, is lighting, and most importantly enviroment, as relfections and refractions need a good enviroment to work properly. Alot could be written about this, and there's just not enough room here to explain it all.

Let me point you visualboo's great free material library available here:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18189

Also, post this question on the "texturing/surfacing" forum, and do a search(on cgtalk) using the "*" wildcards to actually get around the 4 letter search minimum.

This tutorial is for Raydream studio, but the methods should translate:

http://web.idirect.com/~gig/tutor2.htm

I'll post more later when I've got some more time.

Best of luck, and again, welcome to the forums!

-3DZ

:D

[jp33]

thanks so much for all the info. i'll start taking a look at it here in a few minutes :D
i'd love to hear more from you and others if you have the time.

thanks again

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