I started work on my Snow Macro again, after a year or so. The problems I  
had then I have solved...
1) The icicles now blob with the main snow blob
2) The icicles are now positioned correctly.

Now the code is even shorter than before. :D

The only thing is that I am not happy with the icicle shape. Other than  
that some parameters could use tweaking and I'll be good to go.

It parses pretty quickly, but because of the texture it renders slowly.  
Looks like I need to increase max trace level too.

Scene Statistics
   Finite objects:           16
   Infinite objects:          1
   Light sources:             1
   Total:                    18
Possible Rendering Error: Maximum trace level reached! If your scene  
contains black spots read more about the max_trace_level setting in the  
documentation!

Total Scene Processing Times
   Parse Time:    0 hours  3 minutes 23 seconds (203 seconds)
   Photon Time:   0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
   Cloth Time:    0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
   Mechsim Time:  0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
   Render Time:   3 hours 45 minutes 30 seconds (13530 seconds)
   Postpr. Time:  0 hours  0 minutes  0 seconds (0 seconds)
   Total Time:    3 hours 48 minutes 53 seconds (13733 seconds)
CPU time used: kernel 3.43 seconds, user 11564.34 seconds, total 11567.77  
seconds
Render averaged 113.31 PPS over 1310720 pixels

Ian


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