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Snowcapped mountin backdrop?

Prince WaoPrince Wao Posts: 373
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I'm building a winter scene with snow shader used to cover the ground, but I need a mountain backdrop which actually has snow on the mountains. I have quite a few mountain backdrops, sky domes and boxes, but none are snowcapped. I've searched the store but can't find anything suitable. I also don't want anything with trees on them as the ones I have with trees have default shadows which go in the opposite direction of the shadows in the set. Any suggestions?

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  • nemesis10nemesis10 Posts: 3,845

    How about an HDRI and this https://www.daz3d.com/mountainscapes-backdrops-volume-2-snow-edition

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 2019

    you just want a render, not a geometry?

    uou could pick up this bryce set to do your mountain renders

    if you aren't on a mac >.<

    says: Bryce 7 Pro is not currently compatible with MacOS 10.7 and above. Please do not use it with these platforms. Bryce WILL work with 10.6.

    https://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-pro

    https://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-1-pro-grand-mountains

     

     

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  • Prince WaoPrince Wao Posts: 373
    nemesis10 said:

    How about an HDRI and this https://www.daz3d.com/mountainscapes-backdrops-volume-2-snow-edition

    Thanks but HDRIs are no good as I already have the scene 90%+ complete, including ground and low hills, props and characters, the lighting set, etc, so all I need to complete it is a snow-covered or snow-capped mountain backdrop. I currently just have a sky, but it needs some feature otherwise it's empty space. The only alternative would be to add more and higher hills, but being snow-covered they'd be featureless and so trees would be required, but I don't have or know of any tree props which come complete with snow. As the ground is snow covered it doesn't make sense that either trees or higher mountains would be snow free.

  • Prince WaoPrince Wao Posts: 373
    Mystarra said:

    you just want a render, not a geometry?

    uou could pick up this bryce set to do your mountain renders

    if you aren't on a mac >.<

    says: Bryce 7 Pro is not currently compatible with MacOS 10.7 and above. Please do not use it with these platforms. Bryce WILL work with 10.6.

    https://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-pro

    https://www.daz3d.com/bryce-7-1-pro-grand-mountains

     

     

    Yes, a Bryce backdrop would be good, but I don't use Bryce.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,318

    rotate the HDRi around until you have trees with shadows in the right direction and render that and add it in the background as a layer in gimp or photoshop

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,318

    and you can learn to use Bryce too, you learned to use DAZ studio and how to use a computer after all.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 2019

    Would this be of any help  

    Or maybe this one

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281
    edited December 2019

    There is this one:

    Easy Environments: Snowy Mountains  -  https://www.daz3d.com/catalog/product/view/id/021610

    Here's a quick 360° view of the included HDRI only:

    https://www.screencast.com/t/lG3M3lJE2Er

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  • MelanieLMelanieL Posts: 7,763
    Prince Wao said:
    nemesis10 said:

    How about an HDRI and this https://www.daz3d.com/mountainscapes-backdrops-volume-2-snow-edition

    Thanks but HDRIs are no good as I already have the scene 90%+ complete, including ground and low hills, props and characters, the lighting set, etc, so all I need to complete it is a snow-covered or snow-capped mountain backdrop. I currently just have a sky, but it needs some feature otherwise it's empty space. The only alternative would be to add more and higher hills, but being snow-covered they'd be featureless and so trees would be required, but I don't have or know of any tree props which come complete with snow. As the ground is snow covered it doesn't make sense that either trees or higher mountains would be snow free.

    The product nemesis linked won't affect your lighting or need an HDRI that you're not using, it just loads a flat or curved plane into your scene which you place behind your existing props. And it's PC+ so fairly cheap.

    Alternatively you could get an alpha'd image from here: https://www.textures.com/browse/snowy-mountains/78085 - you need to sign up to the site but it's free and they only require an email address (I've received barely any emails from them, so they are not spam-generators) - a free account will allow you to download 15 images per day. You would need to load the pic onto a plane and create a transparency map for it in an image editor program. A sort of more laborious but free version of the mountainscapes product.

  • bmosaltbmosalt Posts: 52

    This set has a decent mountain range backdrop.

    https://www.daz3d.com/french-ski-resort

  • Prince WaoPrince Wao Posts: 373
    Taoz said:

    There is this one:

    Easy Environments: Snowy Mountains  -  https://www.daz3d.com/catalog/product/view/id/021610

    Here's a quick 360° view of the included HDRI only:

    https://www.screencast.com/t/lG3M3lJE2Er

    Thanks for the suggestion of Snowy Mountains, Taoz, as that's kind of thing I was after. I did searches for snow, snowcapped, etc, but never for snowy, so I never found that, but I did find and buy Frost World which has done the job! Frost World has the advantage of having falling snow and separate clouds layers: https://www.daz3d.com/frost-world

    Thanks to everyone else for their suggestions.
    yes

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