Despite the fact that it sucks, it's good. (Wait...does that mean that I'm one of the right people?) For legitimate looking 3-d clouds, I highly recommend Lost Horizons Software Carrara Power Pack. The volume clouds are awesome. (it's not in the free one, it's in the buy one) It takes a little getting used to but you can control color for the main cloud body and change the color out towards the edge of the clouds. Just like the stock volume clouds with Carrara, you can control complexity but the LHS stuff adds more detail. You can also 'split' a single volume cloud into 'levels' and apply specific color adjusments with in that level. Very cool. If you want to use the Wind settings though, just move the sky up hight than the default 100 inches. Mark