Anyone have any amazing cloud .tgd files to share?

[chuckerii]

Your fakestones look great! Would you mind to share the .tgd-file?

Thanks ;-)  I eventually got fed up with the clouds and threw this onto my DeviantArt- anyone can feel free to comment and look around the site.
But, armed with your advice, Oshyan,  I'm going to re-visit the scene tomorrow afternoon after school and see if I can get some decent looking clouds/sunlight effects in there.

Or at least share with us in more detail how you set this up without using a heightfield shader.  Thanks.

Chucker

[icarus51]

About this topic: is it possible to render clouds like Congestus or Cumulonimbus? Without models. And if possible, how can i locate these clouds in the landscape?
Thanks.

Claudio

[VermilionMartyr]

I'll upload the .tgd when I get home.  As for the technique I used, check out this thread:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=231.0

I basically just stacked a bunch of fake stone shaders on top of each other, then threw an image map shader on.  When I first rendered the scene, which originally had no water, I got an image that basically looked like the texture I used, but with some bumps and lumps in it.  I didn't get a coherent scene until I added water, which is what moodflow was missing in the above thread; if you add water (and position your sun well) you get a greater sense of depth in your image. 

Unfortunately, I don't have any credits to give out for the texture... I'll upload it later, but I can't figure out where I got it from.  =/  A good texture is key, baby.

[moodflow]

I'll upload the .tgd when I get home.  As for the technique I used, check out this thread:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=231.0

I basically just stacked a bunch of fake stone shaders on top of each other, then threw an image map shader on.  When I first rendered the scene, which originally had no water, I got an image that basically looked like the texture I used, but with some bumps and lumps in it.  I didn't get a coherent scene until I added water, which is what moodflow was missing in the above thread; if you add water (and position your sun well) you get a greater sense of depth in your image. 

Unfortunately, I don't have any credits to give out for the texture... I'll upload it later, but I can't figure out where I got it from.  =/  A good texture is key, baby.

I was about to also ask if you could post that .tgd file of those rocks, but just found out you did it similar to the way I did.  It looks great!

[VermilionMartyr]

Unfortunately, I can't get you guys the texture-- it's too large.  But here's what I did...

[king_tiger_666]

do you mean the rock texture?, do you have a linky to it or is it possible you could email it?.... cheers... nice render btw

[VermilionMartyr]

There's the texture, baby ;-) I had to zap it with the shrink ray in Photoshop to get it to upload... the new dimensions are 1280x834... the original dimensions were 2288x1491... you may need to re-size it back to the original dimensions to get it to look right when projected through the camera on your scene.

IF YOU THINK THIS IS YOUR TEXTURE, please contact me!  I'd love to know where I got this beauty.

[king_tiger_666]

heres my attempt.... if only the preview screen didn't take so long...
files here http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~rawjdmbj/downloads/cloudscene.zip

[monks]

-if you're looking for textures, there's a great new site with free textures, freely distributable, etc here:
http://www.texturesource.org/forum/index.php?board=2.0

Feel free to register and upload too. You can dload them from the gallery area.

A lot of the textures are seamless such as this one (they are indicated as such in the gallery description):
http://www.texturesource.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=935&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=927524c2caf284a22688b52e084e6fe3

if you want stone:
http://www.texturesource.org/forum/index.php?action=gallery&g2_itemId=164

monks

[RealUser]

Thanks Vermillion for the files! Much appreciated!

[rcallicotte]

Wow!  Nice pictures.  I especially like the chopping seas.

I tried plopping in a twist and shear shader into the cloud shader, AFAIK it did nothing. Has anyone else tried it with success? I've also tried the strata and outcrops shader on it, to see what it would look like. Shoving a power fractal into clouds seems to have a nice effect though. I wonder what an alpine fractal would result in?

I'll put up my planetary render (with clouds) in a sec, for now here's my first successful 800x600 render, I think the cloud came out ok.

Ooh, and here's my second successful render, I was trying to copy one of Oshyan's sea renders as a lesson on water, I think the waves are too choppy, and they miss that golden glow, but other than that I think I've learnt enough with them to carry on.

[Buzzzzz]

Since clouds take ages to render and test, does anyone have any amazing cloud .tgd files they would be up for sharing?  I'm still working on a few of my own, but would like to see what others have pulled off so far. 

Not Amazing but here you go. These were used in Goshute.

[rcallicotte]

@vermillion - This reminds me of one of the textures I've seen sold on Renderosity.

There's the texture, baby ;-) I had to zap it with the shrink ray in Photoshop to get it to upload... the new dimensions are 1280x834... the original dimensions were 2288x1491... you may need to re-size it back to the original dimensions to get it to look right when projected through the camera on your scene.

IF YOU THINK THIS IS YOUR TEXTURE, please contact me!  I'd love to know where I got this beauty.

@monks - Thanks, monks.  These resources look awesome.

[dhavalmistry]

I shared a cloud TGD file a while back...you can get it here (3rd post from bottom, see the result on 7th post from bottom)

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=34.180

Enjoy!!

[Volker Harun]

And here is one I once shared: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=622.0