cartooney winter's day

[mallwine]

Okay guys after spending a good 4 hours trying to get the texture right for the snow I thought I would give a shout for help.

I am ill versed on texturing so please forgive me.

I am trying to create a texture that will have a mixture of green for the braches and raise snow on the branches ( I would assume that I need a gradient/ bump map for the snow). The problem that I keep running into it the colors get belnded together instead of being seperate. I was folowing a tutorial for the snow texture but it wasn't working out.

What would be the best way to accomplish this. Should I UVWmap this thing and apply some sort of map and bump map? Would that approach work better? All the trees are the same just resized and stretched.

Please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Flux]

Texture the tree, then make the snow out of geometry. Then you can just make a procedural texture for the snow to avoid any unwrapping.

[mallwine]

Yeah I was thinking about that... okay sounds like that is the way to go....

Thanks

[mallwine]

Okay so I did a quick and simple. I think this works with some tweaking...

[Flux]

Should be more rounded imo, and not so uniform around each tier.

Aim for something like this:

Bunch of planes with a leavey texture, with an alpha map to shape the bottom. Clumps of snow added geometry.

[Squash-n-stretch]

Anyone know where the official announcement thread of this comp is? Looked here and in announcements, couldnt find it. W0uld like to know if I have enough time to enter.

[TwiiK]

December Challenge - A Winter's Day

Competition start - 09:00 24th November
Competition ends - 23:59 31st December

There you go.

[mattmattoid]

Thats right, - there is still time to get an entry together and a great prize for the best entry, So there is no reason not to give it a go

[mattmattoid]

Originally Posted by mallwine

Not sure as I would be considered a beginner or not.

Sorry Mallwine, only just saw your query there when I was reading through the entry threads again (It was a question, right ?)

You can put yourself f orward for best beginner prize if you have less than a yeas experience of 3D apps (or there abouts). If you only break out your 3D apps occasionaly then this might be a little longer. Its hard to quantify, but when youre ready to move on you will know

If you want to be considered, you have to specifically say so. Just let me know.

Matt

[mallwine]

I would say I qualify as a beginner I would say I have been playing with the app for just about 2 years now but not consistently. Either way I am just glad to give this whole competition a go!