how to model snow on the roof ???

[tranvietanhtuan]

make sure that there are no snow at my place

but my projects was a house on a snow_mountant

lookat this test render : http://thor.prohosting.com/axdesign/canada.wmv

 

any one could help me to give some thing like snow on the roof pls,

thank so much for any help.

[Frosty]

i use cinema, but i would use box modelling and hyper nurbs. I believe a smooth modifier is your equivilent. The secret to snow in that it isnt smooth and it should look blue in shadow, light yellow/orange in sunlight.

[Eric]

I belive you're looking for something like this thread:

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/showthread.php?t=460&highlight=snow

 

The source for the script:

http://www.nikclark.com/scripts/snow/index.htm

 

I've tried it with good success. Here is a sample image where I used it. It worked great with the grass island - the grass is a VRay displacement. The snow has some variation in thickness, covering some of the grass, revealing the rest. The parking lot is a photoshop combination of 2 images - snow and no snow. I wanted the asphalt to look like it was lightly dusted with powder. Anyway, good luck with the plugin. Give it a try with a few test objects drawn to the approximate size of your building, and play around with the settings. By all means, let us see the final results!!!

[Wayne Harney]

I posted a quick tutorial at the autodesk vizions NG a while back

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2046829

 

You can look at the project I used this technique at http://www.prughlenon.com/render/