The figure is pulling up the dingy from the water.

Thanks hborre...

68 layers fog shader. Rendering time approx. 45 minutes!!! I stopped this test after 12 minutes... too impatient.

The 68 layers cube.

In the 68 layers cube, Alyson and
Gozilla?!.
Render aborted after about 25 minutes. The remaining pixels look a bit like dust that the lizard kicked up.

Aaaaahhh and a Mitzubishi Lancer???

Gozilla doesn't like the render at all. His eyes and claws go whistle...

Now, where did I place that cube?

I will post instructions for the cube. But I don't want to hear complaints when someone's graphics card burns out.

From the Morphing Primitives participate a Square. You take that as a parent!!!!

Then you add a square rotated 90 degrees in the x axis. You set this up with a transparency of 1.1 - 1.2 or 1.3. Then duplicate it and set it "in front" in the z-axis 10 to 20 mouse clicks on the positioning wheel. Don't forget to assign it to the parent. I have no idea if it takes this setting with you when you duplicate it. So, you do that about 60 to 70 times. :)

Then you have the Fog-Cube a'la Jsenwark. You can then scale, rotate, etc. via the parent. By scaling you can influence the density of the cube. and of course by adjusting the transparency of the squares. it should always be above 1.1 the sqares don't need any color or texture, i just included them for illustration. Red for parent, blue for the "kids".

I can promise that the fog effects are just crazy. The denoiser even makes it look like billowing clouds. !! Look the last Godzilla pic.

For anyone who wants to try this, I express my sympathy for their graphics cards.

Sorry... the transparency falloff is 0.4 - 0.6... important.

Last example, Alyson frozen. First layer is broken glass (VincBagna)

For the lighting, I recommend the round cube or another object with the warm led by VinceBagna. Place it best above the scene. Trying out is announced. Normal lighting is difficult to use, it's like in a car when it's foggy, high beam on and you can't see anything anymore...

That looks great, but it seems like a lot of trouble to simulate a volume, when Superfly can do actual volumes....

Show me an example that looks really good. I haven't seen anything here yet.

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JanusJsenwark posted at 2:47 AM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467015

Show me an example that looks really good. I haven't seen anything here yet.

Soft volumetric lighting, from my product Level Up! Superfly, that has been in store since 2021. That's a P12 render.

Ok looks interesting but can your shader also do something like that?

It's a prop. It scales, it moves...you can move it to the back as you want, and has three density settings to play with.

Here, quick render to show a lion at dawn with Medium settings on Volumetric prop, rendered in about 75 seconds on my old machine:

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Kitbash Catwoman

Kitbashes are the best.

@JanusJsenwark cube with Scatter Volume. 259 seconds to render

@JanusJsenwark cube with Scatter Volume. 259 seconds to render

@722 Sure

You have to adjust density depending on how big your cube/object is.

here is the cube using scatter volume this took 297 seconds

Here is the carpet.... and a million tons of other things.

https://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=f26c3727

Kitbash Catwoman

ghostship2 posted at 5:31 PM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467060

Kitbash Catwoman

Wooow ❤

ghostship2 posted at 6:02 PM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467065

Seems like you both forgot to tag the nudity (and the only I've problem with is... mine )

here is the cube using scatter volume this took 297 seconds

JanusJsenwark posted at 5:47 AM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467103

ghostship2 posted at 9:46 PM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467088

here is the cube using scatter volume this took 297 seconds

Looks very good. Unfortunately I don't have the slightest idea how something like this is made in Poser. That's why my self-made fog cube.

Works really good, will play with it today. Yay, scatter volume! Thank you, ghostship2, again.

Volumetric smoke exhale

Do you put that on a cone?

The only thing I really don't like about Bella is, that there is actually not much to do about her. Tweaking her body shape a little bit, maybe?
There is no other out of the box figures in Poser or DAZ studio with that high quality of expressions.

Rhia474 posted at 11:44 AM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467119

Do you put that on a cone?

Wooow... Thank you so much God, sorry Ghostship! 
Smoke + fog + weird place = don't really want to know what's happening there... lol

And yes: smokes are 3D objects, I'm done with those fake plans... Yay ❤ 78" to compute using Poser's optix ultra caustics preset, on my aging 2080.

Wooow... Thank you so much God, sorry Ghostship! 
Smoke + fog + weird place = don't really want to know what's happening there... lol

And yes: smokes are 3D objects, I'm done with those fake plans... Yay ❤

ghostship2 posted at 12:37 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467133

Y-Phil posted at 12:34 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467131

Wooow... Thank you so much God, sorry Ghostship! 
Smoke + fog + weird place = don't really want to know what's happening there... lol

And yes: smokes are 3D objects, I'm done with those fake plans... Yay ❤

Looks good! I'd make the clouds texture a bit larger (more billowy) Use the scale parameter on that clouds node

Next: find a way to modulate the scale of the vertical smoke with... something linear... Could be fun

ghostship2 posted at 12:37 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467133

Y-Phil posted at 12:34 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467131

Wooow... Thank you so much God, sorry Ghostship! 
Smoke + fog + weird place = don't really want to know what's happening there... lol

And yes: smokes are 3D objects, I'm done with those fake plans... Yay ❤

Looks good! I'd make the clouds texture a bit larger (more billowy) Use the scale parameter on that clouds node

Aha... you're right, thank you!

Next: find a way to modulate the scale of the vertical smoke with... something linear... Could be fun

Y-Phil posted at 12:57 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467135

ghostship2 posted at 12:37 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467133

Y-Phil posted at 12:34 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467131

Wooow... Thank you so much God, sorry Ghostship! 
Smoke + fog + weird place = don't really want to know what's happening there... lol

And yes: smokes are 3D objects, I'm done with those fake plans... Yay ❤

Looks good! I'd make the clouds texture a bit larger (more billowy) Use the scale parameter on that clouds node

Aha... you're right, thank you!

Next: find a way to modulate the scale of the vertical smoke with... something linear... Could be fun

The smoke coming out of the urn should be scaled up as well. Might also want to lower the emission levels for the smoke. That really depends on the lighting. In the example I show I'm only using the background to light the scene

Many, many thanks for your great help.
And also thanks for the fact that nobody laughed at me for my self-made Fog Cube... :)

New worlds are opening up for me... Thanks!!!

"Clouds" modeled in sculptris

Many, many thanks for your great help.
And also thanks for the fact that nobody laughed at me for my self-made Fog Cube... :)

New worlds are opening up for me... Thanks!!!

"Clouds" modeled in sculptris

Ok: two vertical smoke objects, with small differences in their parameters + vertical orientation, a witch, and now I'm happy with the result 

Ok: two vertical smoke objects, with small differences in their parameters + vertical orientation, a witch, and now I'm happy with the result 

All this talk of fog and smoke and I decided to try one

All this talk of fog and smoke and I decided to try one

The carpet again... the HighRes tablecloth... the ball... doesn't look the way I wanted it to, but I'm out of breath now. Maybe later...

Thank's TheAnimaGemini...