DF ice-frost-skill-vfx

Build the effects of an ice and frost skill as one visual language in Three.js. Frost that grows like real frost, not a painted fern: a dendritic tree grown on the CPU from a seed point, stems racing outward with barbs and sub-barbs that compete for space in one time-ordered queue, side branches leaned toward their tips, baked into a distance field so the shader draws hairline feathers growing out from the seed with a bright tip, rime, crystal glints and a contact shadow. Faceted ice spikes built from half-spaces and ray-traced against their own planes (Snell, Fresnel, total internal reflection, Beer-Lambert blue, trapped bubbles, a fracture network, frosted edges) that erupt along the frost line, crack along visible planes and shatter into convex pieces that tumble, land on a face and rest, with snow lumps and ice chips settled into the crust. A low freezing mist marched as wind-stretched banks that churn in place and part around the ice, a blizzard column of powder on helical strands with a fibrous veil, glinting diamond dust, and a scanned snow floor with dunes, broken crust, a raking moon with self-shadow and two populations of glints. Use for ice or frost skills, frost novas, ice spikes or walls, glacial eruptions, shattering ice, blizzards, snow devils, freezing mist, frozen ground, "ice and frost", "frost creep", "ice shards", "realistic ice" or "skill effects only". Includes two reusable modules and a five-beat demo on a scanned CC0 snow floor with a failure-mode switch.

Build the effects of an ice and frost skill as one visual language in Three.js. Frost that grows like real frost, not a painted fern: a dendritic tree grown…

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