I sometimes have the problem that I have the right characteristics for the clouds I want in a scene, they're just in the wrong place for the composition. There might be a clump on the right side of the picture that would look better on the left side.

What's the simplest way to shift a bunch of clouds from one part of the sky to another?

Don't know if it's the simplist way, but i've selected all objects (including camera and sun) and rotated the whole bunch, in order to get a nicer part of the sky into the camera POV.

In the atmosphere editor, go to clouds. Choose which clouds you want to move and right click on the picture of the clouds in the  square box. Choose the Effects menu and check rotate and click on edit. Then start rotating them along whichever axis you desire.

Ah yes, I had seen that before but then I couldn't find it again when I needed it. It's odd though that:

(a) you can rotate them but not translate them; and

(b) there isn't a way just to change the random seed number in the way there is for terrains.

Edit: Weird - my post came out all blank :huh::huh::huh:

Anyway like I said when I was rudely vanished...

I contacted e-on a few months ago to ask for the ability to get at the settings for sky materials with Python as at the moment there isn't a method for getting at the atmosphere settings.  As far as I know its been passed onto the development team but I don't know when or if they might get to it.  I wanted to build a script that would allow the sky materials' parameters to be randomly modified.  I'm not certain if this would have produced useful results.  Anyway for now this will have to remain a dream and it may be irrelevant if some of the sparse hints about Vue 6 are anything to go on.