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Making Real Looking Clouds and Skies BRYCE DAZ CARRARA?

FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,155
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I don't mean using skydomes with static photographs of clouds.  I mean actually creating the clouds, or the software creating the clouds in the sky, so that it looks real?  I have DAZ Studio, Bryce and Carrara, but I only know how to use Studio.

Thanks!

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  • Sven DullahSven Dullah Posts: 7,621

    The pw Ghost shader for 3DL is pretty cool, also Marshians "Above the fog" type products are useful. Don't know about IRay.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,907

    Bryce and Carrara both have volumetric clouds which are awesome but are software specific so no use if you want to export to DAZ Studio

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,407
    th3Digit said:

    Bryce and Carrara both have volumetric clouds which are awesome but are software specific so no use if you want to export to DAZ Studio

    ...yes

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,818

    I have no solution for Daz Studio, yet, but you could make some nicely looking clouds in Blender.

    https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/44941/is-there-an-easy-way-to-make-volumetric-clouds-for-cycles/

    If I only find a way to export it from Blender and insert into Daz Studio scene - it will be awesome.

     

  • HoroHoro Posts: 10,974

    Bryce can make beautiful volumetric clouds. Unfortunately, it's not possible to use them directly in Studio - and they do take a while to render, too. However, these clouds can be rendered as spherical panorama and then used in any program on a sphere that encompasses the scene. I often use pre-rendered cloud sky panoamas from which I also make specular convolved HDRIs to get the light on the scene matching the clouds. The same pre-rendered cloud sphere and HDRI can be used many times, just rotate the sphere and the HDRI a bit to get a different pattern.

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,818
    edited August 2018

    There is also a free CloudsToy generator for Unity:

    https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/?stay#!/content/35559

    I do not know, how to export the generated clouds, yet,

    but one can bring pretty easily Daz assetes to Unity.

    Below is an example screenshot from Unity.

    Since it is real time, you could quite easily create animations with it.

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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited August 2018

    for DAZ STUDIO These are the best 

    Stonemasons https://www.daz3d.com/iray-clouds

    I also like take & use the clouds props out of this set https://www.daz3d.com/winter-terrains-for-daz-studio  and use them all the time kitbashing them into other sets .

    works wonderful for animation like this one.

     

     

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,818

    Very nice, Ivy, you are a great storyteller and animator.

    I adore your persistence and skills of using Daz Studio for such a long clip.

     

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    Why not just use a photograph? Its free and easy and very realistic
  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    Artini said:

    Very nice, Ivy, you are a great storyteller and animator.

    I adore your persistence and skills of using Daz Studio for such a long clip.

     

    Thank you.  Animation is fun to tell stories with , bringing pictures to life so to speak  :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,407
    edited August 2018
    Ivy said:

    for DAZ STUDIO These are the best 

    Stonemasons https://www.daz3d.com/iray-clouds

    I also like take & use the clouds props out of this set https://www.daz3d.com/winter-terrains-for-daz-studio  and use them all the time kitbashing them into other sets .

    works wonderful for animation like this one.

     

     

    ..nice. I like the fact that your animations tell a story without dialogue. 

    Loved the 'Indiana Jones" style map with teh old aeroplane tracing the routes.

    What did you use for the Nepal scenes? That is a very nice setting.

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  • JazzyBearJazzyBear Posts: 805

    Most people do not even realize there is an ENVIRONMENT PANE (not iray render environment) and you can load a background of any picture. Just load one of the several thousand cloud/sky pictures from pixabay or somewhere(free for even commercial use) and there is practically NO Render time for the background. (Okay 2-5 seconds on an ancient pc but still) If you have Photoshop or otehr programs you can save the picture as an HDRI and use it to light the scene. Just rotate any lights to match the shadow angle. 

    Also you can create masked billboards and set the opacities to various levels and over lap them if you need foreground clouds and the FOG products here are volumetric already so they can finish off about any look you want.

  • ebergerlyebergerly Posts: 3,255
    JazzyBear said:

    Just load one of the several thousand cloud/sky pictures from pixabay or somewhere(free for even commercial use)

    Or just go outside.... laugh

     

  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    kyoto kid said:
    Ivy said:

    for DAZ STUDIO These are the best 

    Stonemasons https://www.daz3d.com/iray-clouds

    I also like take & use the clouds props out of this set https://www.daz3d.com/winter-terrains-for-daz-studio  and use them all the time kitbashing them into other sets .

    works wonderful for animation like this one.

     

     

    ..nice. I like the fact that your animations tell a story without dialogue. 

    Loved the 'Indiana Jones" style map with teh old aeroplane tracing the routes.

    What did you use for the Nepal scenes? That is a very nice setting.

    I kit bashed a buch of FirstBastion set together.  like Halfway Up the Mountain , &* High Cliff Crossing  with a stonemason wintery terrain

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,407
    edited August 2018
    ...nice work. Looked very appropriate. Once we stop getting these back to back to back heat waves, I can return to working on and rendering scenes again. Those mountain scenes looked very inviting conpared to the sweltering conditions we have been enduring where I am. Wish I could create some clouds in RL. The only ones we have been seeing are smoke from nearby wildfires.
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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165

    Boy do I wish I could send you guys some of our rain all its ben doing here for the last 24 days is raining 60% of more each day. everytime we get a thunderstorm now the town gives out flash flood warning. its one extreme to the another for weather lately

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,407
    edited August 2018
    ...yeah sounds like we swapped climates. I affectionately call the region I live in "The Great Pacific NorthWet". Last few summers it has been anything but. We are on our 26th day of 90+ temperatures with another 5 to 6 days forthcoming. By mid month that will make 31 days of sweltering heat. Very un-typical for an area renowned for its cool rainy climate (and lately it isn't unusual to see 90s even into September).
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  • IvyIvy Posts: 7,165
    edited August 2018

    We been very lucky in mountains of NE Tennessee the temps have stayed pretty much around the mid 80's which is seasonal for us.. But we been in this topical jet stream pumping moisture up from the gulf making the air here unstable and humid, which produces rain & dark,cloudy skies 24/7 I swear.

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  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,155

    Thank you, that's a lot of ideas!  I'm trying out Carrara to see what I can do with it.

  • FauvistFauvist Posts: 2,155

    Here's my first Carrara render.  I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm getting pretty good results creating landscapes and clouds.  I should have been using this program a LONG time ago.

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 9,818

    Nicely done. It looks like, you have found, what you needed.

     

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,014
    th3Digit said:

    Bryce and Carrara both have volumetric clouds which are awesome but are software specific so no use if you want to export to DAZ Studio

    Well you can always use the renders as background pictures in DS.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,407

    ...I've done that with both Carrara and Bryce.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Fauvist said:

    Here's my first Carrara render.  I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm getting pretty good results creating landscapes and clouds.  I should have been using this program a LONG time ago.

     

    very nice scene!

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