I have a large section of mountainous terrain modeled and now I need to place/paint simple snow (just simple color white will work) on the tops of some of the mountains.
The terrain modeling is fairly simple and has been subsurfed once, no smoothing. I thought that retopo would be the way to do it, but it doesn’t quite work out.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to accomplish this? Thanks.
One way to do it is with “UV textures.” Surf to tutorials on projection painting and watch a few videos.
The idea here is that you start with imagery of a real snowbank and basically “paint the image onto” the geometry of your model.
Another way to do (distant…) snow-capped mountains is with a matte painting, which (despite the very similar name) refers to a flat plane (probably a circular one with the camera in the middle…) which has a background painted onto it. When the mountains are (supposed to be…) far enough away, you can’t distinguish them from a flat painting of mountains … so, instead of real mountain geometry you use … “a flat painting of mountains.”
Let me also toss in: vertex painting.
“There’s more than one way to do it.” As is always the case in everything having to do with digital computers…
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