cumullus clouds again

[marcob]

Is this cloud a terragen 2 one or a photo background?...I know that one of the best cloud image is from him, but nothing got close to that new one...anyone know how to emulate this??? I tried everything but I think my TGD skills aren't enough...I tried different settings, image map projection, like tornado and hurricane ones here, and got some nice results, but nothing like that...I'll try something new as long as I stop to droll over the keyboard. Any suggestions? thanks

[marcob]

Sorry, the link...

http://lucbianco.free.fr/2bgal/img.php?id_img=545

[old_blaggard]

It's from TG2.  I honestly don't know how Luc does it.  Some people have gotten pretty close - search for the cumulo-nimbus cloud thread.

[Will]

he should write a book on his techniques.

[rcallicotte]

I agree with Will.  Or at least a PDF.

[PG]

From what I've pieced together from his various comments, all he is doing with that is adjusting the settings of depth, density and coverage to get the thickness to a decent level, then adjusting the pattern on the power fractal and changing the seed a few thousand times to get the effect he wants, no trickery or tomfoolery, just anally compulsive attention to detail

[rcallicotte]

@PG - He's doing more than that and including that.  There is Fake Internal Scattering, GI settings, setting up the scales in the Density Shader for the cloud layer itself, and something he's doing either with TG2 or with another program outside of TG2 that is making his final renders better than probably anything we've seen here.

[Seth]

inside TG2 me thinking ^^

[PG]

yeah, I wasn't planning on listing every possible parameter that he'd use. This site has all of the different settings that you can use within the cloud layer itself, but to get the results that luc achieved you would need to fiddle with the density shadera bit, possibly changing the power frctal for another type.
http://www.motionmagnetic.com/a_terragen2/atmosphere_examples/atmosphere_examples.html

[rcallicotte]

Billows setting.  Changing the scale around to make the clouds bunch up.  Matt once mentioned using the Fake Internal Setting with GI.  What else?

[PG]

Yes setting the noise to Perlin billows is a definate must, ridges also provides some cool effects. I hear people talking about warping all the time but I can never seem to use it properly

[Seth]

What else?

Georges Clooney ? is that you ?

[rcallicotte]

"Damn!  We're in a tight spot."

[Will]

FROG!

[rcallicotte]

The more we practice (and the more detailed instructions from Luc and his posse), the better clouds we'll make.

"Gopher, Everett?"