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   gurleygirl

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   22 August 2018, 1:15AM

   After doing a quick search on: broken up sea ice
   I came up with a number of pictures that looked like this which look more like your picture on the left:
   

   
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      jumarbye

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      23 August 2018, 7:28PM

      Interesting. I would have gone with the pic on the right, but this pic shows me I would be wrong to think it looks more realistic!
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   TheWilloughbian

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   22 August 2018, 12:49AM

   The right has a little more depth I feel. The left looks very flat.
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      COMBATFUN

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      22 August 2018, 3:34PM

      I agree. The left one might be Closer to reality, but the Right one Looks better :)
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      Pfuscher

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      22 August 2018, 8:08PM

      Looked into skyrim. There are icefloes for land and for sea. So it's possible to use both
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   Pfuscher

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   22 August 2018, 12:35PM

   Both are Bc7 as they need an alpha map for transparency.
   I'll make the normal map stronger and will go with the left side style. Some hand painting on the alpha and it will look more natural. And a little less blue.
   
   Thanks for your opinions.
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   deleted28570945

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   22 August 2018, 6:18AM

   I like the one on the left. If you are doing glaciers, I would stick with DXT5 or BC7, even for diffuse.
   
   Blends much easier and I found out the hard way that SE does not like DXT1-style landscape textures or normals very much for some reason.
   
   Excited to see what you come up with!