Melting snow and ice on Rivers and Lakes Learning Project for Gaea 1.3.2.7

Here comes an annotated learning project to get to know the IceFloe node. It is a complex node that offer decent results if you work hard outside the box.

Knowing more and more of Gaea's possibilities you could probably totally avoid that node and create a unique ice cover and melting scheme from other combinations. But knowing how it works and how to harmonize it with the water system and the snow is good knowledge.

This project also gives ideas about how much you can fiddle with masks, invert them, re-invert them, combine one with another, to achieve nice results.

I tend to prefer reusing existing data as much as possible when it is in the good lineup for the process, so that if anything major changes in the main landscape, everything will mutate harmoniously with maybe just minors adjustments required.

As written in the red node in the graph, feel free to reach for me on Quadspinner's Discord!