Vray Sky with clouds generation

[andy51]

There is another thread discussing using Vray Sun and HDRI skydome, where you can't have a visible vray sun, when using an HDRI sky mapped to the vray dome light. Yes you use the sun that is normally included in the HDRI sky, however, that particular light source, is immovable and you can't use lens effects etc.

Anyway, I made a suggestion in that thread, that it would be great if the Vray Sun and Sky systems, could also generate clouds and another member mentioned that Cinema4D had a similar system. So I am requesting a new feature, so that when adding a vray sky to the environment, you can also add various levels / densities of clouds. How difficult this would be to implement, I have no idea, but having a full blown sky creating system, rather than the cloudless gradient we have at present, would be incredibly useful.

Hopefully you understand what it is I am requesting. Have not seen the sky system in Cinema4D myself, but sounds interesting.

[ThreeDlife]

Agreed this would be an amazing upgrade to the sky system! I am not a Cinema4D user either, but I did find this old video on its sky system.

[andy51]

Agreed this would be an amazing upgrade to the sky system! I am not a Cinema4D user either, but I did find this old video on its sky system.

Pity they didn't really know how to use it and skipped over a lot of the settings, but yeah, this is the kind of Physical sky that would be a great feature in V-Ray Next. Clouds, with several layers and a list of types. The Location / Time thing would be nice too. I know many prefer to use the Skydome/HDRI sky map system and it works just great in many situations, but I seriously believe that a sun/sky system, similar to this one in C4D, would be a really useful addition to V-Ray.

[JD3D_CGI]

Would be nice to have Moon and stars as well!