Quote - True, some of the presets do work out of the box, and some don't really need a color change but simply an adjustement of the "sky mean altitude parameter".

I think that the atmospheres from the Physical collection might work best to start with since they are (as far as I  understand it) physically accurate, while the others are probably made to look right with no gamma correction (this is just what I assume).

Quote - BTW, very, very nice rocks, I hope some day you will consider selling some presets :)

Thanks Abraham :-) Have been a experimenting quite a lot with displacement throughout the year and was able to come up with some convincing stuff.

However I dont feel its the right moment for such a pack because there are currently some issues related to displacement in Vue 9. Have mentioned one point further above (artifacts when displaced objects are rotated).

The other point is that I can`t make displaced procedural terrains look right in Vue 9 (was much better in Vue 8.5).

This does not mean that you cannot get nice displacements with Vue 9. As long as a Metablob is not rotated after having been "metablobbed" you can get great result with no artifacts. Also in Vue 9 there seems to be an improved  population of ecosystem instances.

A good example is Wabes`s moss. I really like it now in Vue 9. In earlier versions I  had the problem that it populated the instances in lines, when I tried go apply it on displaced Metablobs. Now it looks as beautiful as I always hoped it would look :-)

All three pics are rendered in Vue 9. The rocks btw. are all Metablobs with displacement applied (There are some Vue 9 issues with displacement too. For instance when you rotate a displaced Metablob you get artifacts. This can be avoided by "unblobbing", then rotate, then re-create the Metablob).

Quote - (I leave out the "scale problem" introduced with vue 8.5 scale change

Indeed this is a problem, at least for Metaclouds objects like the ones from the set.

And even with Unit=0.1 the Metaclouds clouds look a bit different (They seem to not have the level of detail they had in previous versions). Will try to sort that out with E-ON.

Was going through some renders I did with Gamma correction (and made some new ones today). Indeed there are some renders where the sky is somewhat too bright. But I also found others where I was using the physical atmosphere and I found them really nice the way they were, even with Gamma correction. Maybe it has to do with the camera angle which points to the sky. Also the camera height was sometimes not at sea level but a couple of hundred meters higher , which darkens the sky.

Below are a couple of examples where find that despite gamma correction the sky looks natural to me. Judge yourself :-)

@Speculart: No I have not tried this method (yet).

@Ambraham: Thanks a lot for the info. I hoped you would be around when your help was needed :-)

Beautifully set sky!

I tend to prefer the non scientific tweaking method as well :-)

Hi Speculart,

Thanks! I am happy to hear that

Well, I tend to use the linear work flow. However this brightens up the sky and clouds considerably. I can`t say for sure but this seems to be the effect of the gamma correction.

 For my taste the sky becomes a bit overly bright especially with a sun high up in the sky. A solution may be to set the exposure to a minus value and/or to tweak the atmosphere settings.

Maybe Abraham has some further advice on this.

Btw. Today I did some tests using the Vue 9 Pre-release using Vue Internal unit=1.

While the set "White Magic" works fine (with not too high AP settings), "Metaclouds Vol.1" seems to not like Unit= 1 too much. Some clouds look different or not so nice as with Unit=0.1. Also with Unit=1 the position of the Metacloud objects needs to be readjusted (they seem very small or are invisible, but this is because they are too far away and too high up in the sky).

With Vue 9 and Unit=0.1 things work as expected.

For those interested Michel Rondberg has published reviews of the two cloud sets on his website.

http://www.michelrondberg.com/2010/11/01/vue-clouds-by-dick-sherzinger-review-part-1/

http://www.michelrondberg.com/2010/11/02/vue-clouds-by-dick-scherzinger-review-part-2/

Hi folks,

Have been informed by Cornucopia that in the cloud packs "White Magic" and "Metaclouds Vol.1" the documentation is now included. :-)
 Everyone who purchased the packs with missing documentation can simply redownload them.
(The information will help you get a lot more out of those packages!)

 Sorry for that flaw...

Hi silverblade!

Thank you!!!

Cool picture and nice use of clouds! Not a place for humans, I guess :-)

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