Simple cumulus clouds from a sprite emitter

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Haven't quite gotten the emitter itself to stay transparent so you don'tsee it in transit.


PRJ

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edit: dark sky variant sprite...

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They're actually faster onscreen in real-time than they are to render to a movie.

Oh thats good I could actually see faces like in real clouds

you are mr. wizard with this software. Next up, cumulonimbus with rain and lightning and maybe a tornado?

i wanna see one of those fly through's similar to serenity where you come up on a planet, go through the clouds, see the terrain below, light is reflecting off the ocean, you know, just your run of the mill ILM style special effects sequence that usually takes months to prepare

All of that can be done in A:M. It's a matter of knowing the tools and using them in the right place. Get to it.

oh i'm not doing it, i'm too busy with ELZ to be runnin off doing playtime with AM, you could do it, you're the pro

Robert, I love all the experimenting you have done with A:M lately

Beautiful Robert .....

very nice clouds!

That does look terrific - would be interesting to see if one could have a small "crowd, flock, swarm" of clouds (crowd of sprite emitters?)

Or perhaps a crowd of some Image emitter HAIR clouds, that are dynamically "groomed" by an animated direction map, animated hair length map, color map, as well as animated hair emitter transparency...

(EDIT probably easier to do multiple hair clouds on a path than to try a crowd - more controllable)

Yes those clouds look nice. Thank you!

Michel

That looks good!


Ive always wondered what if you use several volumetric bulb lights with a fractal sum material on them would make good clouds?

Ill have to test that.

Photoman

There might be something in that.


The problem with "clouds" is that they are like a solid in that they are rather opaque, they have a sunny side and a dark side and they cast shadows. And yet, they are not solid, they are really a gas or close enough to it to be blown around and not maintain their shape.

At normal distances they may appear to have a very sharp surface on one end and be misty on the other.

Great test! Only thing missing is the audio... 'the Simpsoooons...da--da-da-dada-da-da---dedadada-dat!'

Nice

Super nice, Thanks

Great clouds, I tried them in a short scene its a bit basic, still needs a lot of work, but you get the effect I was after.
Glenn.

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Thanks. Looks windy!

I wonder if the cape might benefit from a greater stretch stiffness setting.

Thanks robcat

I had the cape looking a lot better in an ealier test, but sods law I lost the settings.... Oh well back to the drawing board.

Awesome robcat.

Have you tried increasing the lifetime and performing the emitter animation before frame 0?

Then kick on the force about a half sec before frame zero. Maybe use a long lifetime so the sprites fade more slowly like real clouds.

Yes, there are many variations possible. I didn't have an immediate use for the clouds so I just put them out there.

Forum member "entity" showed a similar technique some years ago but I can't find his post. THere were also some great sprite clouds in TWO I recall.

I believe this is the discussion on the clouds used in the opening sequence of 'Tin Woodman of Oz' (TWO).
There are some great examples and project files from Rich (Entity), Mark (mtpeak2) and all the usual suspects here in the forum.

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...29237&st=40


I'd be curious to see how a rolling/boiling cloud effect (somewhat similar to a slow motion explosion) might look using your technique.
There's never enough time in a day to explore all the cool things that can be done with A:M but it sure is nice to know the effects are there if and when you need to use them!

A rendering out of a few of these type of sequences with transparency (perhaps PNG or Targa images) might be just the thing for the Images forum area. I'll note to self to see what I can do to collect a few.