Hi, I'm a big Cloud fan (being a Flight Simmer) and would love to see any renders made using Carrara's cloud making tool. I've only seen two Cloud posts in the Carrara Gallery, both by RIDS, and they look really great. I believe I also saw a BACK-LIT Cloud image on Eovia's website- Back Lighting Clouds is a special interest of mine as a Cloud Fanatic. Any examples of Clouds or how the Cloud Making feature in Carrara works? What shape or density controls are there?

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Veritas777, I posted an image using the new volumetric clouds in my gallery, see the link for the image. It also uses the new surface generator to create the trees. Once we get the fast tranclucency carrara is going to be a great landscape program. Mike

Wow! I am very impressed! Hope to be able to get something similar for a project i am working on. Nice work.

Great image Mike- I would love to see Carrara give World Construction Set some real competition. I hate that geeky program. Waste of money- could be hugely useful if they only had someone who knew how to design a modern user interface. But if Carrara starts supporting more GIS- Geo-Reference data it would be a smart thing to do. Clouds are very good in Carrara- what does the WATER look like? Wavy Ocean Water is my second biggest interest. Can you generate any "Ocean Wave" effects? (I don't mean surfing waves- just "Ocean Waves"...)

beautiful image!

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Just thought I would post this link. I am entering a contest at CG talk and I just posted an update there that used the new volumetric skies of Carrara studio 5, I am building my scene in C4 but imported the rendered C5 sky and used it as a backdrop . I used a Basic shape for the volumetric cloud and scaled it to cover most of the sky and then added a few clouds on the horizon. I am extremely happy with C5's clouds so far. Mike

mmoir this has really come along nice. The ship is much better, a bit lifeless, but you said you were just starting it. The aqua duct(?) I would also like to see have more life to it also...since it runs thru there. Water just looks a bit flat. What did you use to model and texture/uv? Only carrara? These kind of projects are the kind I like to see real details of the process on because they cover so much and obviously take a lot of tweaking and reworking.Every step lighting, concept, setup, modeling and texturing is really worked thru and people can learn so much from this. Too many tutorials don't go into enough details to really help.Great work!

I have to rework the water ,especially the waterfalls . The waterfall and rivers is just a vm object with a plain shader , hopefully I have enough time to do something better with the river but I have to fix the waterfall for sure. Mike