How to Create Real Ice Cube in Blender (Quick Blender Tip 17)

In this Blender tutorial, I will show you how to model, texture, and light real ice cube in Blender to achieve a photorealistic look. As you know, real ice cube is transparent as a glass shader, but it has an inorganic shape and also a unique feature of its texture.

Using HDRI as a lighting map is very popular in Blender, however, do you ever tried to use HDRI as a texture map for surface reflections? if not, you will love to see what HDRI can do to achieve a photorealistic ice cube in Blender in this video.

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[cg.man_aka_kevin]

But, if you want to add some kind of whiteness to it, just use the Principle Volume node and duplicate the cube which is smaller. And then, add a rough displacement, to make it look like lines frozen in the ice.

[monasonica]

I still dont get the part of the HDRi, so what kind of hdri did u inserted ? a room? a space? a light? :, )

[vijayviswa]

Realistic glass node is missing in my blender tool, how to i get that shader

[lucash]

Do you maybe have the link of the HDRI?