Alan's Cloud Generator
| I've been doing a lot of atmospheric modeling lately and wrote a script that generates some cool interactive volumetric clouds! Not only can you see the shape of your clouds in the interactive 3D window, but you can animate their properties with IPO curves. |  |
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There are several default cloud presets built-in! Included are Cirrus, Cumulus, Mammatus, Nimbus, Stratus, and Streaks. |
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When you're done automatically generating points, you can edit them and delete the clouds that you don't want. Then, it turns the clouds you DO want into faked volumetrics. I say fake, because it will only render correctly from the camera's perspective, so it won't work that well yet with extreme reflections. Once you have teakwed your settings how you like, the next step is to generate the billboards themselves. The script will create the necessary materials for you. |
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| After you're done with those three steps, you're left with beautiful volumetric clouds that are viewable from any angle and animatable! |
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Animated "lifecycle" video
Watch its interaction with solids
Cloud flythrough video
Download
If you like these results, download the Release Candidate 1 script
It is also available in a .zip archive.
If you find errors in this version, or would like to discuss this script, please use the topic at Blenderartists.org.
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