First successful TG 2.5 render

[Bjur]

Just wow, great picture!

Would love to learn something about interaction of image maps (NASA/ESA/etc.) and the shown result with TG cloud thingies pre-post.. 

[gregsandor]

Yes.  I found a nice hurricane image on the NASA site and pumped it through the cloud density input. 

It -only- took me a week and a half to figure out after numerous failures, but it worked in the end.  The main thing that kept tripping me up was how dependent the final cloud quality was on the resolution of the source image.  Once that lightbulb went off, the rest was easy.

Greg

Well, what did you decide?  How dependent IS the final quality on the resolution of the source?  Higher = better?

Beautiful image.

[ratfugel]

In my part of the world we have a word for something that's absolutely terrific -  'gobsmacked' .  That's what I thought when I saw it. I even showed it to my fearless leader,  who just glanced at it and muttered something about astronauts and cameras as she sauntered back to the kitchen, where she belongs!

rat.

[gregtee]

The size of the pixels of the image dictates the appearance of the final cloud.  If you can see the pixels, your clouds will also show them along their edges.  I thought the clouds would be able to render independently of the image map edges, but they don't.  That's what was tripping me up.

-Greg

[Volker Harun]

Thumbs up!

[ra]

Great work!

[SteveR]

that's utterly stunning! wow! nice work!