Hi Just started using Carrara 6 pro I got free with Digital arts magazine. Seems really good but something is confusing me.

I opened a new large empty scene, go to atmosphere choose a sky from the presets. In the preview it looks fine but when I render I just get a blue sky with no clouds showing. I’ve tried adjusting the settings but it doesn’t seem to do any thing.

If I use a realistic sky setting that seems to work.

Just wondered what I’m doing wrong

Cheers

 

 

 I looks as if your camera is pointing straight up - can't really tell without seeing the Assembly Room. 
Mark

Hi I've added a cube primitive and infinite plane to make it clearer. This is the scean and the resulting render. It seems like the sky may be rendering at ground level for some reason though that’s the way its loaded as default.

 

this is exactly the same scean just with a realistic sky applied. 

 

 Ok, I see what's going on. I looks like you've chosen the Large scene size. I missed your earlier comment about using Realistic Sky v.s. the"old" sky settings. The Realistic Sky respects the  scene scale - the other Sky setting does not. So, your clouds are really, really low; the camera is above them. You an adjust the altitude

I haven't used the "old" sky settings for so long that I forgot about this little quirk.

ha! cheers I'll have a play with that.

Does using real skys add alot to render times? if not I suppose its better to use then anyway. 

I've been a bryce user for years but this seems like it will be good (when i get the  hang of it :)

 

 I used Bryce for years myself but the render times made it impossible to use professionally. Carrara has a pretty solid environmental capability. Post back with questions. You willl have to bend the brain a little bit just because of a different way of doing things.

However, after spending a little time, I don't think you'll be looking back. :-)