Create a Layered Snowflake Pattern

by kernon dillon


Learn how to create layered snow flake patterns in this tutorial by using scripts and nodes.

Learn more about Blender’s Compositing Nodes:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Compositing_Nodes

The “Scatter and Drop” script is not built into Blender and the online link is broken. A copy of the script is available in the tutorial download.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Manual/Misc/Scat_and_Drop_Objects

The built-in “Object Random Location, Size, and Rotation” script is an alternative for using “Scatter and Drop”.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Manual/Object/object_random_loc_sz_rot

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11 Responses to “Create a Layered Snowflake Pattern”
  1. Yegor
    Posts: 3

    Wouldn’t it be more realistic, if we do scattering in 3 dimensions, instead of two. Than composite z-depth pass and normal image, and than use the depth mask for bluring? It’ll do really nice result!

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     Dec 4, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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  2. koeru
    Posts: 3

    Is there supposed to be no sound?

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     Oct 24, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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    • jonathanwilliamson
      Posts: 1415

      There should definitely be sound. Do you have sound on our other tutorials?

      -Jonathan

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       Oct 25, 2010 at 4:13 am
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      • rant
        Posts: 1

        Sadly, the sound is missing from the first half of this nice tutorial

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         Nov 16, 2010 at 1:12 pm
      • Kris
        Posts: 1

        It appears that I also face the same problem.

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         Feb 20, 2011 at 5:29 am
  3. shane smith
    Posts: 26

    I’m not hearing sound on this one either, except an odd click/pop at about 1:35-ish. However, the key commands and other text make it still very helpful!

    Just noticed that sound comes on at 13:54.

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     Nov 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
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  4. larssl
    Posts: 43

    Yeah, no sound for me here either, except for the popping from 1:35 and onwards.

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     Nov 10, 2010 at 9:19 am
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  5. shane smith
    Posts: 26

    I think the “To Sphere” button no longer exists in the 2.5 beta (I couldn’t find it anyway), but pressing alt(option)-shift-S put me in “To Sphere” mode, in which moving my mouse to the right increased my percentage.

    For the life of me, I couldn’t get the script part to work. But, I’ve never really used the text/script editor. So I had to improvise at that point.

    I came out with this:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/42452973@N05/5165252749/#/photos/42452973@N05/5165252749/lightbox/

    Thanks for the great tutorial!

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     Nov 10, 2010 at 8:51 pm
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  6. David Van Mosselbeen
    Posts: 2

    I’m sorry but this video is useless without sound! Like other also said it, sound start around 13:00.

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     Dec 23, 2010 at 4:29 am
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  7. oizukitom
    Posts: 7

    Hi, I imagine this tutorial is getting a few more hits with Xmas and blizzards.
    Here is 1 solution to get the audio working. In short, as a citizen
    1. download the zipped package. 2. open the video in VLC – “what still no audio?” Go to audio in VLC then pick “audio track 2″ This should get you a cool tutorial with audio.
    Thanks,
    Tom

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     Dec 30, 2010 at 12:24 pm
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    • oizukitom
      Posts: 7

      Oh I see what happened. At around 14:00 minutes (after the fast forward arrangement of the flakes) the audio shifts back to track 1. So if you download the zip package you can just change tracks from 2 to 1 at 14:00 minutes and you are back in business.
      Thanks,
      Tom

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       Dec 30, 2010 at 12:42 pm
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