Tutorial | Melting Snow

Learn how I built my snow material with exposed parameters for melt amount, enabling snow to melt naturally into water. This material is a part of my Signature Series collaboration with Allegorithmic: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qm12z

Use this tutorial as a detailed step by step guide for how to recreate my Melting Snow from scratch.

This tutorial follows a walkthrough format, where I go through how I built each of the components in the graph including:

- Base Shapes

- Shape manipulation

- Snow, Crystals, and Clumps

- Melt Water and Slush

- Setting up Melt Parameters

- Diffuse, Normals, AO, and Roughness.

Skill Level

Intermediate Level, you should be familiar with the basic nodes and workflows in Substance Designer.

Contents

- 40+ minutes walkthrough covering the entire graph from start to finish.

- 1080 Resolution

- Non-directional warp node (credit to Evan Liaw and Bradford Smith) and my simple preview node are included

- Stream video directly (for Studios who need downloadable files, get in touch)

License

Personal, Small Business, and Studio/Educational Licenses are available. Personal licenses do NOT apply to companies or organizations. Sharing, streaming, and redistribution to third-party is strictly prohibited.

*Digital products are non-refundable