More on the clouds following the terrain

[mhaze]

Is this a bug, altering the height of the clouds, changing acceleration cache or any other parameter has no effect. Removing the twist and shear shader and it's OK

[JimB]

Is this a bug, altering the height of the clouds, changing acceleration cache or any other parameter has no effect. Removing the redirect shader and it's OK

I suspect adding the Twist & Shear shader turns the clouds into a terrain based shader. But Matt et al would know better.

[freelancah]

We need more masking methods so this could be done with something else than just image map shader or is there a way to do this otherwise? I tried but lots of other ways but so far no success. Also a way to make a gradient map from f.e. heightmap would be nice

[moodflow]

Once I saw this technique in action (about an hour ago), I realized it may apply to another idea I've wanted to test for a while.  It worked!  Here are the results.  Many thanks for pioneering this.

[domdib]

WOW! Care to elaborate on how you made this work moodflow? Looks fantastic.

[moodflow]

Its just like mHaze's method, but instead of viewing from the top, its viewing from the bottom.  MHaze's method was proof that you could create "terrain" using clouds. 

I put the sun just below the horizon to underlight the clouds for additional effect.  This only took me about 15 minutes to assemble and about 5 to render and came out 100X better than I thought it would.

[Mohawk20]

I've seen such clouds hundreds of times for real, now I can finally make them!

[mhaze]

here's another clouds from underneath

[rcallicotte]

I found this incredibly helpful for conversion from a TER file to TIF - http://koti.mbnet.fi/pkl/tg/TerraConv.htm

[mhaze]

Cheers Calico - I've had trouble finding this.

[rcallicotte]

I had to convert the 16-bit TIF to JPG before I could get it to work.

mhaze (and all those joining in) - Thanks.  This is so much fun!  It works!