I know this has been mentioned numerous times before, and whilst I agree with Vlado’s sentiments that it isn’t strictly speaking the job of a render engine to impliment clouds, it would be amazing if it were a function within VRay. I know there are a couple of plugins out there that do it, but I fi…

So besides Vue, what about DreamScape? Best regards, Vlado

Exactly, there’s the actual volume rendering itself which vray has, but then there’s the second part which is intuitive and controllable cloud modelling which is a bit more specific - are we talking about overall skies / atmosphere or individual clouds that can be sculpted?

Do you not have to use their proprietary renderer “rapidray”? And what about their shaders, etc?

[image] Phoenix for Maya 2012 Do you not have to use their proprietary renderer “rapidray”? And what about their shaders, etc? I’m just wondering about the clouds… Best regards, Vlado

I guess all it would take (no idea how difficult they are to program) would be some procedurals that mimic different cloud types. Also, last time I tried to make my own clouds I had to use a gizmo that was several kilometers in size to stop the clouds from coming down to the ground, and to imitate t…

This would actually be great… some kind of tweakable atmospherics settings within the Daylight system, perhaps, or a dedicated Vray Atmospherics System. So you could choose between overcast, stormy (think dark blacks/greys and yellow sunlight coming through gaps), sunny etc. And a moon-lighting one…

Absolutely. Whilst HDRi’s are fantastic they are limited by two things; 1) Resolution - unless you want to get one of those spherocam hdr’s to take pics of your scene the HDRi will usually need replacing in the backgrounds of high resolution shots. 2) Animation - they are still images. Enough sai…

We’ve been using the vue plugin for a shot passing through the clouds at the moment and the results & level of control are amazing. I’d like the vray version to be like that because we only have 3 render licenses for it.

Ive seen any number of techniques for the cloud body modeling but to get the correct look shading wise you need multiple anisotropic scattering of something that fakes it vs. just ray marching and single scattering. Here are some examples. clouds.pdf c…

[image] Object properties bug This is a rather spiffy way to model the form http://nis-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/~doba/anime/photo\_cloud\_modeling/modeling\_process.mpg … -Michael That is cool.

VRay Clouds system

V-Ray for 3ds Max V-Ray for 3ds Max :: Requests

LarsSonparsson November 21, 2013, 5:35am 20

There is cloud rendering and then there is cloud rendering. I hope they are doing the second one. :roll:
Let’s see.

Displacement, random render times on Dual Xeon

Topic		Replies	Views
Clouds & Vray V-Ray for 3ds Max :: General	26	2511	March 31, 2014
Chaos Group, Is a cloud system difficult to program? V-Ray for 3ds Max :: General	15	1181	June 1, 2010
Vray Clouds Yet? V-Ray for 3ds Max :: Requests	19	1207	March 5, 2012
Cloud engine V-Ray for 3ds Max :: Requests	23	1834	October 24, 2007
Dynamic clouds Common :: Public	7	333	March 13, 2020

VRay Clouds system

Related topics