good clouds from above and below

[FrankB]

Found a nice setup to create nice cumulus clouds that both look good from above and from below. The first image a only 0.5 quality, the second 0.7, sorry for that:

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[timtierney]

Love both renders.  I think the bottom one is better.  You can really get a sense of depth from under the clouds.

[rcallicotte]

Groovy.  These clouds would go well with nvseal's planet tutorial...wouldn't they?

[FrankB]

... took the latter and squeezed it into a prarie-style ad-hoc scene. Nothing special, but I'm trying to see if the sky lighting still works with a terrain and vegetation.
This is using Lighting's highland grass (thanks!), which is nice but takes forever to render.
The whole thing rendered for 5 hrs at 0.8 quality, at AA6 and soft shadows.

Cheers,
Frank

[rcallicotte]

Excellent!  What is the tree?  I love these clouds and atmosphere.  Brilliant.

[Tangled-Universe]

Cool clouds Frank
The terrain and surfacing isn't really to your standard, but that's not the point of interest in this image.

Excellent!  What is the tree?  I love these clouds and atmosphere.  Brilliant.

If I'm not mistaking this is a cracked willow from Xfrog.
I also used it in my Brand New Day image.

Martin

p.s. whoohoo...post #1000

[FrankB]

Yes, it's the cracked willow - one of the best trees in the collection.

Indeed, the surfacing is sub standard, although it was interesting to do: meaning I learned something about masking while making it. Maybe I can re-use that knowlede in a future image, in which I will invest more time than this. I haven't had the patience in this one, as it took so long to figure out the clouds, that virtually no patience was left or the terrain :-D

Cheers,
Frank