Clouds....

[Lady of the Lake]

Is there a trick to making clouds like these that doesn't take days to render?  I just can't seem to get the hang of making good cumulus clouds.

BTW, photo taken out my front door. :-)

[yossam]

I would raise the quality settings............you got some grain in the atmosphere. 


Just kidding..............what I do is play with settings till I get a general shape that I like and fine tune from there.

[archonforest]

I would raise the quality settings............you got some grain in the atmosphere. 

That was bad

[bobbystahr]

Have you checked out all the clouds on the free preset package? for inspiration; and a tutorial in how each is done in the nodes editor most times...interesting stuff there.

[Lady of the Lake]

I will check those out, Bobby. 

[fleetwood]

Yours is a Holy Grail category question that has come up many times that I've seen on this forum.

  Some good discussion on basic ideas and Luc Bianco's tgd example file can still be downloaded from this topic.
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,5490.0.html

[bobbystahr]

Yours is a Holy Grail category question that has come up many times that I've seen on this forum.

  Some good discussion on basic ideas and Luc Bianco's tgd example file can still be downloaded from this topic.
http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,5490.0.html

good call, I'd quite forgotten about his gift of cloud

[Lady of the Lake]

Thanks, Fleetwood.  Appreciated.