Can someone help me make clouds for Poser5. Tutor me. I have purchased a F-16 here, and I like to animate the aircraft going through the clouds. Pretty please....

There are a few solutions. Ajax has some free Material settings which are fantastic. He has materials for the background that produce great skies. Metaform and Particles2 can both be used to make smoke and clouds, plus many other effects. These python script products can make the organic shapes inside of Poser5. Maybe playing with primitive props and applying the right material settings could work. There are many free material files from Mapps, Ajax, and RDNA. Many can be found here at Renderosity Freestuff.

Yes, I have Ajax materials already. Will look into them. Thanks.. :-)

RDNA's sky dome is worth looking into :) Or maybe just adding a photo-real sky to your work via a paint program as postwork :)

Attached Link: http://www.nerd3d.com/

You might also look at Nerd's "fog tool". It comes with layers, so getting a soft fluffy look with a lot of depth control is possible. He has a cloudtop addition to it. 10 bucks. "It comes with poses and maps for several Fog Effects, Haze, Mist, Rain and Snow." I snagged the picture from his store. I have the original, but the stuff in the upgrade is tempting.

WHOA!..now that is kewl!.. :-)

The nice thing is that you can get fluffiness in front AND back of your object... so that an airplane would look like it was in the middle of a cloudy sky, and not just pasted on top of a photo. Carolly

Don't forget the Cloud and Turbulence shaders in the material room.

Hi - looks like I'm a little late on this thread but I have a cloud question as well. I'm trying to figure out how to create "rolling clouds" - I'm not doing a single image, I want to make a short movie and I want the skies to have the dark, heavy, moving clouds.

any hints/tips/ideas where I can pick up something like this and maybe add it to my other stuff so that when I exported it to a movie file the clouds would be rolling? (without having to learn a new application) - it would be insanely cool if it were that easy.

Maybe I'd have to do this in an editing software(post-prod)like Final Cut? I have that (I'm on a Mac btw)

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Attached Link: http://svdlinden.xs4all.nl/poserstuff/animations/clouds.avi

Here's a quick-and-dirty cloud animation made in Vue 5 Infinite. Set up in 10 minutes, rendered in 15 minutes. DivX 5.2.1, 320x240, 10 seconds at 15 frames/sec. Is this the kind of clouds you want?

Svdl, Is there a certain setting I need to view this file? I have the updated quicktime but it's not displaying. Argh!

It plays fine in the DivX player and in Windows Media player. But you'll need the free DivX 5.x codec, available at www.divx.com. Or are you on a Mac?

Ooooh OK got it open and that's just what I was talking about. So that's Vue5? Hm, is there a place to purchase that kind of thing for a few bucks or would I have to buy/learn the Vue5 software? Also, can that clip you made just be imported into Poser or does there need to be some kind of process.. for example, you purchase a building from the marketplace on here... then you put these clouds behind it... is that a Poser thing? Thanks for the clip, now I'm all excited! :o)

Well, Vue 5 Infinite is not "a few" bucks - I plunked down $599. It IS a very nice piece of software - that little movie rendered in 15 minutes! You can check out Vue 5 at www.e-onsoftware.com. There are different versions, Vue 5 Easel is the cheapest, Vue 5 Infinite the most expensive (and feature-rich). I usually set up a scene in Poser and render it in Vue. Poser animations import very well in Vue, and the Vue render engine is better at handling large complex scenes (but Poser is definitely better at handling closeups). What version of Poser do you have? To be able to use a movie as a background you absolutely NEED Poser 5 or 6. You might want those moving clouds without the water, hill and tree, and you also might want it at a higher resolution and/or duration. Just let me know what resolution you're going to render your animation at, what frame rate, and what total number of frames, and I'll render you a cloud movie that matches. I'll also use another codec - Microsoft MPEG4 - to get rid of that dratted DivX logo. And I'll render at a better quality, this was the "preview" level. You do not have to purchase anything. You can put the movie as a texture on anything that has an UV map. Background, cube, sphere, square, figures, props, whatever. The cloud movie seems to be suited best for a background movie, though. But if you want to make this kind of movies yourself you'll have to purchase Vue. I've tested "movie" textures two years ago, I put a movie on the screen part of a TV prop. Worked very nice.

SVDL - I've sent you an instant message with what I'm doing etc. Let me know if you got it. Thanks a million!

I was thinking about the fog tool for awhile and then this thread happened. It prompted me to get it. I've only worked my way through the basic tutorial so far but I'm very pleased with the product. I highly recommend Nerd3D's fog tool. Now my angels can have a soft bed to sit on and look really heavenly :)