Some Soft Clouds

nvseal · September 28, 2009, 07:31:28 PM

I've been meaning to render this one for a while now and finally got the chance this weekend. It is more of a clouds study than anything but I rather like it.

Postwork in Photoshop.

4000 * 2000 http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/271/c/7/Terragen_Soft_Clouds_2_by_nvseal.jpg

old_blaggard · September 28, 2009, 07:54:41 PM

Nice work! There are a couple of lines that look like they could be the product of the acceleration cache, though - did you have that turned on?

Your noise fractal and settings are both definitely spot-on, though.

Henry Blewer · September 28, 2009, 08:16:41 PM

Up near the top of the image, the clouds seem to become more regular and have a similarity. Maybe a distance shader would help break this up?

inkydigit · September 29, 2009, 04:06:28 AM

looks really good....

Tangled-Universe · September 29, 2009, 04:22:54 AM

This looks really good, love it

What's the setting for warp in the fractal? It seems the clouds are quite skewed to the left.

Cheers,
Martin

Rhalph · September 29, 2009, 06:25:56 AM

What GI settings did you use? I think there a a lot of details in the clouds shadows and I'd like to know how you did that

nvseal · September 29, 2009, 12:30:59 PM

O_B - Acceleration cache was on.

njeneb - Yes, the background is much too uniform and that is something I am trying to fix. While I could try to break it up with a distance shader I would like to try to get variants in the cloud height.

Tangled-Universe - I think I had the fractal warp setting at 0.5. or somthing close to that.

Rhalph - GI was set to 2, but I think alot of the detail comes from the cloud sharpness settings.

Falcon · September 30, 2009, 04:57:26 AM

Quote from: nvseal on September 29, 2009, 12:30:59 PM
While I could try to break it up with a distance shader I would like to try to get variants in the cloud height.

That's also something currently on my TODO list. I have a few ideas, but the most practical one so far is to simply work with a larger number of cloud layers. I'll be posting a test-render shortly, as soon as it's done (still got stuff in the render queue in front of it. Dang I need a few 8 core Mac Pros. :-) ).

rcallicotte · September 30, 2009, 01:40:14 PM

@nvseal - you must have mean O_B.

But, I would have asked that question, too.

Nice to see your work. It's been a long time and your work is a pleasure to see.

Gannaingh · September 30, 2009, 03:13:15 PM

Beautiful as always!

nvseal · September 30, 2009, 04:14:44 PM

Quote from: calico on September 30, 2009, 01:40:14 PM
@nvseal - you must have mean O_B. But, I would have asked that question, too.

That's right, my bad.

I think I'm getting peoples avatars confused.

efflux · October 08, 2009, 03:07:58 PM

Excellent clouds.