Clouds RnD

[LarsSonparsson]

I have to create a scene where the camera is flying through the clouds. So I made this setup to easily generate clouds from a very simple geometry.
Currently it takes 1-2 hours to simulate 550 million voxel grid to the cloud shape. In this scene the one grid has top and bottom thin boxes and 4 cylinders creating the pillars connecting them.

Just a wip project, but wanted to share it for inspiration or maybe some one have good ideas to make it better.


https://vimeo.com/252465141/62cdc40bef

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Great stuff!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Do you mind if I share it in the facebook group as well?

[LarsSonparsson]

Well, why not. But it's still early one day test. Hopefully having a lot better looking scene during the next week.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Yay, looking forward!

[Christian Haas]

Hi

Lasse,
your Clouds are looking great. Could you explain a little bit more the technic you are using for that, please ?

[LarsSonparsson]

Here is the file I used for those clouds. Max 2018

If I remember right, first 40-50 frames were simulated with just about 20 milj. voxels, to get the basic shape. Then I used restore and set the grid to almost 600 milj. voxels and continued the simulation until I had enough details.

Clouds_02.zip

[ben_hamburg]

Awsome, thanks for sharing!