cloud mangling

[inkydigit]

been up in the clouds again!
cracking walnuts with sledgehammers...
back to the lab!
I liked some of the structures here, others were not so desirable....
already have some work arounds...I will check back soon!

[Henry Blewer]

It would be cool if you could mask out the strange areas and replace them with more desirable structures.  Interesting results.

[inkydigit]

thanks Henry...it is difficult, but not impiossible, I am sure...
some explanation of the techniques I used are here:
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=14374.msg140766#msg140766

[Henry Blewer]

I found a way of merging various noise functions into two power fractals. These power fractals are then merged and connected to the density function of the cloud node. I would explain more, but it is based on FrankB's work. (his latest cloud pack on NWDA, I just added more to it)

[Hetzen]

You've got some great shapes within that image, but that warping to me is way too much. I'd be tempted to use a bias scalar to curve your laterals through height instead of a PF driving the warper. Thinking aloud, you could probably use a gain scalar with the bias to get an anvil shape at the top of your cloud layer.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

aaahhgg! he's getting high on walnuts!

been up in the clouds again!
cracking walnuts with sledgehammers...
back to the lab!
I liked some of the structures here, others were not so desirable....
already have some work arounds...I will check back soon!

its raining walnuts and thundering sledgehammers.

[Dune]

Hey Jon, that sounds interesting (

I'd be tempted to use a bias scalar to curve your laterals through height instead of a PF driving the warper. Thinking aloud, you could probably use a gain scalar with the bias to get an anvil shape at the top of your cloud layer.

) You'd probably need to use the other inputs (depth modulator) in the cloud layer for that.