Interesting experiments indeed! For early results they are promising. This is no substitute for real volumetric clouds of course, but you don't always need that, and of course the render times for this are much nicer too. Definitely keep us updated! Of course the frustrating thing about this is, if it's as easy as you describe to do this, why didn't E-On ship with some cloud ecosystem examples and presets? It seems like the least they could do to alleviate the conspicuous lack of real volumetric clouds. Btw Vue is largely fractal-based too. Terrains (procedural in particular), any procedural materials, etc. could be termed "fractal based", as much as Terragen is anyway. - Oshyan

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