snow shader

[fearnight2000]

Anyone got any ideas of how to create a relistic snowshader?
My initial thought was to use an sss shader with a speckle map for bump.

[Geek]

Hey,maybe smth. like this will help a little:
http://www.mymentalray.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3292
this one was done for Maya,but the shading network will be just the same for Max.

[frun2]

Use this scene by Jeff patton, name Glacier, it´s not exactly a snow but maybe you will have an idea.

http://jeffpatton.net/Max7/index.html

cheers.

[fearnight2000]

Thanks guys for your replies

[JeffPatton]

There's a good snow (and ice) material example (IMHO) in a making of tutorial at the AREA site here: http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/focke_wulf_crash_in_the_snow_making_of

[frun2]

Really cool tutorial, thanks Jeff.

Cheers