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Dark Soldier
05-26-2004, 06:55 AM
I want to make a realistic sky with clouds that have the realistic qualities. People have tried to discourage me from trying but just wanted to see what the people think. How would i make these clouds? Is it to bigger task for me? i've been using max for almost two years.

Thanks for reading , any suggestions welcome

dark soldier
Wardile
05-26-2004, 01:42 PM
hmmmm intresting.

Without plugins like afterburn etc i dunno.

Maybe a mixture of geometry and particle systems.


Ive also tried this but to no great extent.
The_Magician
05-26-2004, 01:49 PM
NO! THIS IS EASY!!!

Get Rob's Smoke shader, this is a GLORIOUS shader!!! I love it. As soon as this assignment is over, I'm going to play with it extensivly... I should PM and tell him I think, hehe.


heres a link to the thread to the shader.
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133252&highlight=smoke+shader

I have used this for some dust and for my spaceship explosion, it gave me some pretty damn good results. I gave it a cloud test, worked quite well, not perfect but with a bit of tinkering and tankering I can see it giving some very nice results.

Hope this helps!!
quake
05-26-2004, 01:59 PM
Hi.

I have got crated this with Dreamscape 2.1 :
http://frodo.hiof.no/~deetee/vrupload/store/clouds-test6.jpg
http://frodo.hiof.no/~deetee/vrupload/store/clouds-test4.jpg
http://frodo.hiof.no/~deetee/vrupload/store/clouds-test7.jpg

I think Dreamscape is best for clouds.
This clods are rendered with step of 70 , if you lower steps you will get more realistic shading .
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