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Title: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: Aagam on March 23, 2009, 10:10:03 PM
I opened up Terragen earlier today and began playing around as I normally do. I was working on some clouds, however when I went to render, the clouds didn't appear, however their shadows did. I attached a picture to show what I got. This has never happened before, and I didn't change anything really (I had just added a cirrus layer).
Title: Re: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: neuspadrin on March 23, 2009, 10:10:58 PM
can you upload the .tgd?

Also, what is your coverage set to?
Title: Re: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: FrankB on March 24, 2009, 08:13:35 AM
If you added a cirrus layer from the default choices, that's a 2D cloud. 2D clouds cannot be seen from above.
Change them to 3D and you should be good.

Cheers,
Frank
Title: Re: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: neuspadrin on March 24, 2009, 08:25:12 AM
Ah I was wondering about that if it was because it was 2d only.
Title: Re: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: Henry Blewer on March 24, 2009, 08:54:40 AM
I had this occur. Delete the cloud layer. It seems to be a scaling problem in the denisity shader for the cloud layer. With my situation, the cloud scale was larger than the denisity shaders scale.
Title: Re: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: Aagam on March 27, 2009, 04:11:27 PM
Bah sorry guys, I forgot I asked this. Been so busy.

I tried deleting the cloud layer, didn't work. Tried restarting Terragen, didn't work. Reinstalled it, worked perfectly. Not too sure what happened there but all is good now :)
Title: Re: Rendering Clouds problem
Post by: Oshyan on March 30, 2009, 02:58:10 PM
Actually my guess as to what's happening here is that you *are* seeing clouds, and the darker parts are gaps in them showing through to the planet (and shadows) below. The majority of what you're seeing is clouds. But I'd have to see a closer camera perspective or larger render to be sure.

- Oshyan