I created Frozen Ice all using substrate material in UE 5.6 without ever using any physical geometry. Its all rendered in a plane with 4 triangles. 
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This is really cool, I need to look into substrate. I can see from what you shared how it can be used beyond just normal texturing given its layering system.
Hello @Mridulsrmh !
This is very gorgeous, and I love the textures that we see. Are the cracks part of the texture, or is it part of the geometry? Additionally, are the little orbs made of ice as well?
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Hey, the cracks are in the texture itself so normal map and the base color. Orbs themselves are spheres with metallic texture.
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hey, this looks amazing is there any chance you could link to the textures you used here, or even post part of the material graph? I assume theres some parallax occlusion mapping for the ground / rocky texture and then a glassy see through with the cracks as a slab on top?