Global Snow 2

Turn any scene into a gorgeous winter landscape in just a few clicks, without touching a single shader. Global Snow 2 covers your existing world in realistic, fully lit snow and keeps working with the assets you already have.

From the creator of Beautify and Volumetric Fog & Mist, Global Snow 2 is the most convenient and complete way to add snow to Unity. It works with standard Terrain, Tree and Grass, SpeedTree and many other shaders (see details): no shader swaps, no special "snowed" prefabs, no rebuilding your scene. Drag, drop, tune, done.

*** Rendering Features ***

Realistic snow effect with 3 visual styles:

• PBR Relief Mapping, a fully physically based rendering raymarched shader which produces a 3D effect of snow bumps.
• PBR Normal-mapped snow, uses albedo, normals and specular workflow. Faster and still looks great!
• Flat shading, the fastest mode without normal modification which gives a stylized snow look.

✔ Integrated Occlusion and Glitter. Adds finer details to the ground.

✔ Unity lighting and shadow system compatible. Snow gets lit and shadowed as expected.

✔ Compatible with Global Illumination.

*** Coverage Features ***

• Automatic snow coverage with exclusion options (by layers, per gameobject, mask texture). No need to create thousands of exclusion volumes to hide snow from internal buildings or under roofs.
• Snow can cover terrain, vegetation, buildings, transparent cut-out objects and opaque geometry.
• Altitude scattering for more natural height coverage.
• Slope controls to add realistic snow over cliffs or mountains.
• Ability to place holes.

*** Extra Features Included ***

• Integrated snow coverage painter in SceneView.
• Object snower tool. In addition to the snow brush painter tool, you can now drag & drop scene objects into the inspector and apply custom snow coverage. Great to remove snow from roads and other complex shaped objects!
• Footprints. Make your FPS character leave footprints behind.
• Terrain marks. Detects terrain collisions adding marks over the snow on any moving gameobject. Also detects wheel collisions, great for vehicles on snow (see screenshots).
• Snowfall with lighting compatible particles.
• Camera frost effect.

Lots of quality and feature options with global presets for quick setup and run.

Give your scene a winter theme look now with Global Snow!

** Compatibiliy **

- Supports built-in and URP pipelines.

- Compatible with Unity 2022 and Unity 6, including Render Graph.

Related assets:

- Global Snow 2 is included in the Ultimate Bundle.

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