Ice Sheets and Forms Building Set - For Winter Scenes

A very dramatic landscaping set with some great shapes included. It isn't perhaps the most versatile, but then again, if you're buying this you presumably need ice and that's definitely what you get. I really like the ice sheet edges and the sharp, jutting ice shards of the broken ice pieces.

My only quibble/additional wish would be regarding the pond; I would have loved to see a deep version so that it could fit more easily with land that isn't right at sea level. Or rather, perhaps not a version of the pond (since pond ice would be thin, but perhaps another type of hole in deeper ice. I worked around it with some of the deeper ice, gradually stepping it downwards, but it made it take up a bit more space than intended. Of course, you can also use mesh water, but I didn't have any on hand right now.

As always when it comes to landscaping stuff from Alex Bader, these Ice Sheets are very good looking. Not only for ice as intented but I had all sorts of ideas what these could be used for. However there is a small issue that put an end to most of those ideas.

Maby we have been spoiled but when mesh was introduced it was a glorious to finaly have hills and rocks without that huge invisible boundry box you get with sculpts. Now we could walk on our boulders (or ice) without floating above them or walking through them.

But these mesh ice sheets acts much like oldschool sculpts. In particular when it comes to the larger sizes. You get the big, square boundry box like you did with sculpts and you fall through the pond-section long before reaching the hole in the middle. And just like with the old sculpts this can be fixed by making the ice phantom and adding invisible solid prims. I can only guess these ice sheets have been made this way to keep the prim count low - but what a crying shame.

Still - they look great so 4 stars from me :-)