Hurricane/tornado

[sonshine777]

The hurricane network is being used as a blend shader for the clouds density fractal, at least that is what worked for me.
@jmeyer: It looks like you did the same way, correct?

[j meyer]

That's roight.

[j meyer]

The attached image shows what you get when you connect
the hurricanes color adjust output directly to the density
shader input of the cloud node.Some other quick crop renders
imply that you can get flat cone shapes decreasing the size
in the fall off section and increasing cloud depth.So maybe a
more math oriented mind than myself can figure out how to
make some inverted,thin cone or so,which could be used as
the lower part then.

[j meyer]

Some more examples.
The first one took approx. 2h49m,that's why the others
are cropped and/or at lower quality.

[Oshyan]

That looks remarkably good.

- Oshyan

[j meyer]

Thanks Oshyan,also in behalf of Mr_L.,whose file was used.

Now for a if not the problem of these tests.I've noticed in
my earlier tests that it's hard to gain some height and that
everything seems to get rounded off somehow.So i made
a few tests with Dave Burnetts functional pyramid and a
cone derived from it.See attachment,please.

[j meyer]

And the sideview of the cone,which was made earlier and
has slightly different settings.
Tried it with another circular shape,but similar result as
with the cone.
Any ideas?

[Will]

I see a giant clouds with a space ship coming out of it

[rcallicotte]

@j meyer - This difference between the square and cone is what I have been experiencing with my experimentation.  There is no present way to make a tornado with what we have so far...as far as I can see.

[j meyer]

calico - your huge cloud ball was kind of a trigger for the above
tests. I still hope we can find a solution though.

[Oshyan]

I'm not sure where this problem comes from (hopefully Matt will weigh in again). But you might try playing with Coverage Gamma to see if it has any effect...

- Oshyan+

[j meyer]

I'll give it a try.

[j meyer]

Tried it,but it has no effect in regard to this problem.
I've also tried to combine the hurricane and the square
tower yesterday and ran into some more problems.And
today i wanted to see if it would be possible to move
the cone along the y-axis and if so what would happen.
So i did,the results are attached.Tried it with the pyramid
also,but that turned the square base into a circular base,
too and the result was similar to that from the cone.
Then i tried something else with that modified pyramid
file and got some unexpected results,have a look.

[sonshine777]

Get that bottom one thin enough and figure out how to get the color progression going and you got the start of a fine rainbow. (But thats a whole thread in it's self )

[rcallicotte]

Thanks for trying.  I'd like to see what Matt might say about this...when he isn't programming.  Priorities, priorities.   

This is pretty cool, nevertheless.  Don't want to minimize what doors you're opening, j_meyer.