Will Arnold physical sky ever add an option for clouds

[hitecom8172]

probably not. no physical sky texture ever does in any other renderer.clouds can be dealt with compositng or vdb files or geometry with sky shading.

[hitecom8172]

i mean a cloud like cheat shader.

[madsd]

https://youtu.be/xOYI9k9gsf8

You can do that with OSL, I have a preview of something I am working on, not released yet here.
I also have several other constructs going doing other types of ( note: Realtime clouds ) - So it wont take any effort to render with Arnold.

[xebajac]

Will it work for cinema 4d and is it free?

[lee_griggs]

Cloud volume tutorial.

[madsd]

I belive it would work fine in C4D, cant see why it shouldnt. Yes will be free.

[xebajac]

I am using cinema 4D not Maya....

[xebajac]

no problem thanks

[lee_griggs]

Same principle. Just replace the cloud shader with a noise shader.

[aaronfross]

Environment mapped clouds are way faster to render than true volumetric clouds. If you don't need "god rays" or volumetric shadows, environment mapping is the way to go. VUE has a great rendering engine for environment mapped clouds. There's no reason why that can't exist in Arnold or any other application. It's just not a trivial thing to ask for, and I don't think the Arnold devs are going to devote any time to it, ever.

[xebajac]

Oh ok thanks man