lightning2911 opened this issue on Mar 05, 2009 · 3 posts
lightning2911 posted Thu, 05 March 2009 at 7:31 AM
is there a way to confine clouds to only appear in the distance, kind of closer to the horizon only?
i want them to be more decorative, not massive and also dont change the lighting in the front. basically a sunny day type of shot.
any tips?
thanks in advance
chris
Rutra posted Thu, 05 March 2009 at 12:04 PM
What I usually do in these situations is place a really big sphere in the areas where I don't want clouds to appear. Then, I hide the sphere from render and set the cloud material to fade with objects (I don't remember the exact name of the slider and I can't check now). So, in the area where the sphere is, there are no clouds and the sphere is also not visible because it's hidden from render. This is a very easy, quick and effective method.
But in Vue7 there's possibly another way. I never tried it but it probably works. In the new world function editor you can probably set the clouds to dissipate as a function of the distance from camera.
lightning2911 posted Fri, 06 March 2009 at 2:16 AM
any quickfix will do, thanks!