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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Ralf1324 on January 21, 2008, 10:01:36 pm

Title: Clouds?
Post by: Ralf1324 on January 21, 2008, 10:01:36 pm

Any ideas for how to make clouds?

Title: Re: Clouds?
Post by: Roygee on January 21, 2008, 11:13:32 pm

Wow Ralf - this is a wide question, with so many answers, depending on what you need them for.  Just background? animated? solid to fly through?

If its just background, copy a picture into the environment in scene mode, or just use a single plane textured with cloud.  Using terranim8or and VirtualDub you can use a video clip of the sky and use it as an animated background.  You can make a skydome with clouds, or you can make a cloud mesh that you can fly around and through.

If you want to be a bit more specific, I could help you with more detail. :)

Title: Re: Clouds?
Post by: Ralf1324 on January 21, 2008, 11:15:32 pm

Oh..Sorry...Uh...Just as a uh..well...It's a model of a sketch one of my friends drew...It's two robots standing under a rain cloud..

Title: Re: Clouds?
Post by: hihosilver on January 22, 2008, 12:33:09 am

http://anim8or.org/index.php/topic,402.msg3877.html#msg3877 (http://anim8or.org/index.php/topic,402.msg3877.html#msg3877)
You shouldn't necessarily use that particular transparency map, you can make your own in photoshop as well.  I hope this helps!

Title: Re: Clouds?
Post by: Kevinaz on January 22, 2008, 09:11:04 pm

yeah, i'd go with a transparency map. Bob_I_Ts had a really nice one, but you can easily photoshop your own.

Title: Re: Clouds?
Post by: spicy on March 11, 2008, 06:30:46 am

You can use Terrain8or as well for backgrounds. With this program you can create clouds, explosions etc...