Sparkling Snow Shader - Advanced Materials

Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

In this shader tutorial for Unreal and Unity, we create a snow shader. The shader has sparkles that animate as you move around, extra detail up close, and I also show my method for vastly reducing the amount of texture memory required.

Here's last week's video introducing the new Advanced Material series:
youtu.be/PvDW0ENjQb0

Here's the playlist for all of the videos in the series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lGqHdLQGR2GHne85i9PebbN

Shader Book Recommendations
bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml

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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
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Background Music
Speo - The Little Things
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