heyas! had this brain flash that if you made stones on your terrains and put a cloud shader on them, you could get some serious cumulonimbosity going on. this is how the experiment turned out so far. by the way, you can't make terrains fuzzy? every time i tried, it turned invisible. tsk tsk! however, terrains CAN be shaded with air, so i blended the cloud with air below to get the faded lower edges. (bryce does fuzzy terrains... but i couldnt get the same effect outta the bryce 2 terrain and shader editors.) mess around with this; if you need more help, i'll post a tutorial and the shader. (er, i mean, material.)

Looks simply great... I would really like to see a tutorial on how you did that cloud. Posting the material would also be extremely nice.

Now, THAT is very cool Bloodsong! If you could post a tutorial it would be nice. (And add it in the Vue webring?) That way when I forget how to do it it will be easier to find! :-) Guitta's tutorials saved me yesterday from tossing this silly laptop out the window, because the simple step I was missing was there. This looks SOOO much better thank the clouds on spheres option. Gail

extra primo special! You should write to Steve Bell at E-On and request the fuzz.

heyas; bongo: yes, there is a fuzz control. it doesnt work on terrains. try it! put a fuzzy shader on a terrain and render. if your terrain doesnt turn completely invisible, let me know, because that means mine is screwy. :/ actually, i tried fuzzy terrains in bryce 2... and this clouds & air mix looked better anyway. them's the breaks. ;) i just added puff clouds to that 'ray of sun' pic, with the big cliff.... killer. :) will work on the tutorial this week.

I'd like to be an Angel to live in these clouds... Good idea and hurry to have the tutorial! Cheers.

heya; bongo, you could make each 'puff' a sphere and smush them together... but the point of this excercise is to have each cloud just ONE thing and not have fifty of 'em stuck in there. :) but, you can use different objects for different effects, and different types of clouds.

Bongo, That is true, but the thing I like about this method is the clouds you make will be different every time. Just like the plants and terrains. I love this look for dramatic towering clouds.