This guide was made for entry: Yeti In Contest: legends
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The snowfield is a highly subdivided plane.
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A displacer does all the work - some little hills and it looks a lot more natural.
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The mountains are made with the landscape creator and placed in the background to hide the horizon.
The built in sky is set to Tibet ;-)
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The footsteps are drawn in photoshop and loaded into the alpha and displacement channel. I chose a specific selection (like a straight way trough the plane) for the feet, so the work of adjusting the size and measurements were easier.
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Mountains: snowy, noisy, bumpy and fresnel does the trick :-)
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This is the snowfield - similar to the mountains. It is mixed with the footstep texture. (The footstep texture has the same channels as the snowfield plus alpha and displacement btw.)
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Last adjustments in Photoshop: Levels and color channel contrasts.