clouds

[Emre]

for an animation like planes flying into clouds? or like a background for a scene?
here there's an ad on tv, a cloud character cleaning a baby's ass..(toiletpaper ad..) and it's done with max. not photorealistic but it looks like a cloud.
i'd really love to know how they do it

[jadedchron]

for creating clouds viewed in a background like this.
http://www.fragcentral.com/~super/3d/clouds.gif

[jadedchron]

no ideas? i hear afterburn has something for it. is there any thing else?

[mouj]

Howdy Jadechron !

Afterburn is what i was thinking about at first, or actually a particles system should do it with a nice proc map on it ?

found a couple tuts using atmospheric apparatus..

http://www.the3dstudio.com/tutorials.asp?id=81
http://www.angelfire.com/la/startfromhere/tutorials11.html

this one with Afterburn
http://www.3dluvr.com/content/article/75

also a search on scriptspot has returned a couple scripts but most make use of particles...

hope this can help !

mouj

[jadedchron]

thx mouj, gonna try that out tonight. you're a lifesaver:buttrock:

[WulfHF]

hey!
Here's what I do. It's not too hard and it gives a nice effect.

The basic idea is to create a plane object that will lie on top of your current scene with its normal facing downwards. This plane's material will have a noise oppacity map which you will have to play around with the numbers to achieve a desired look. This will give you they cloud effect.

Then as a background envirnoment I choose a gradient similar to a sky. DARK blue as color #1, medium blue #2 and a lighter blue (near white) as color #3.

That's it. Play around with the angle of the cloud plane relative to the camera. This gives you a nice realistic cloud look.

If you have any questions ... email me. :p

[jadedchron]

k cool. :bounce:

[jadedchron]

tried your first tut mouj. combustion didn't come up in the atmospheres :thumbsdow hmm

i noticed vue d'Esprit 4 has atmospherics.. not sure if i'm willing to pay 200$ (?) for just clouds.. however i'd need them on a couple shots. thoughts anyone?

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