Project-Realish 1.5 Winter is Coming ❄️

A completely new Active Snow System is coming with the next Project Realish update.

This is not going to be a simple snow preset, a white texture placed over the environment, or a basic weather mode that only changes how the scene looks. The new system is being designed as a genuinely active environmental layer that reacts to the world over time.

Snowfall will gradually affect surfaces instead of appearing instantly. Roads, vehicles, vegetation, rooftops, barriers, terrain, and exposed materials will accumulate snow differently depending on their orientation, exposure, surface type, and environmental conditions. Areas protected from direct snowfall will remain cleaner for longer, while open surfaces will build up visible layers over time.

The system is also being designed around small details that usually get ignored in traditional snow mods. Snow density, accumulation speed, surface coverage, wet-to-snow transitions, material response, temperature-related behavior, and the way snow changes reflections and roughness will all be treated as part of the same system rather than separate visual effects.

The goal is to make snowfall feel like an event that is actually happening inside the environment, not just a filter applied to it.

As conditions change, the world itself will visually evolve with the weather. A scene at the beginning of snowfall should look noticeably different from the same location after extended exposure, creating a much more believable sense of progression.

This will be one of the most detailed environmental systems added to Project Realish so far, and it is being built with far more attention than a standard “snow mode.”

More details will be revealed as the system gets closer to release.