Snow accumulation ideas ?

[Frang]

So, you basically want them to pile up... basic rule would be... the more polygon is horizontal, the higher is piling up.

That is exactly what I would like to see happen. I know that with tymesher and a relax modifier on top of it you can get interesting results to soften the big masses and I think I would be happy with it.

There's, of course, always an option where you could just "let it snow, let it snow"   with PsysX, and high friction, and then mesh them. 

But I guess, for larger scenes, that would be absolutely masochistic.

I haven't played the PhysX operators, I should give it a try to see how it goes and post my results here. Its a brute force option but sometimes its the best thing to do

I am thinking of a way... let's say... we render one texture strictly from the top view using a falloff map. Whites would be most horizontal polygon, blacks would be most verticals polygons. We project that map back to the model, and use it as a displace on mesh that will be used for particle placement... that's one idea...

This is intersting, even if it requires some setup, if the map is fine enough it can give intersting results. I've been vaguely thinking about it as a last chance scenario, I have to give it a try too

You can also play with Tyselect modifier on the mesh itself. Check "raycast", and you will see icon in submenu... raise that Icon up, and make it point down to the model... it will select your model in similar way like you already did. Then you can play with soft selection.. maybe shrink selection a little bit...

Oh god I didn't know there was tymodifiers ! New toys ! Yay !

Anyway, thanks for your contribution, it helps me a lot, I hope to come back with interesting results to share !