Scattering clouds for miles

[cb LLC]

Hi
are there any good tutorials or ideas how to scatter lots of clouds in the sky without overloading GPU memory (we use octane). I think max does not support instance grid and itoo forest cannot scatter this kind of stuff. So I am not sure how to scatter vdb clouds for miles like E-ON Ozone cloud software does procedurally. (picture attached)

Anyway to get infinite clouds feature like infinite ocean you have in the future. Thanks

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

Technically the blocker is on our side for this:
- For CPU, no matter if you clone or instance a simulator, if both have the same cache loaded, the cache will be shared and won't take extra RAM.
- However, on GPU the renderer needs to copy the data from RAM to the video memory.
- Right now only Maya Phoenix simulators can be instanced for rendering, we still haven't implemented render instancing for Max.
- This is why I presume that Octane can't know if two (or more) copied Phoenix simulators share the same cache or not, so most likely they will copy the data several times.
- The solution to this should be us implementing instancing for Max - this is near the top of the TODO list, but we still can't get there... hopefully soon...

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Infinite clouds is also something we have in mind

[cb LLC]

Thank you for your reply!

[waaazoo]

Infinite clouds is also something we have in mind

yeah, clouds ! would awesome