Adding Clouds to Atmospheric Scattering

[CAILENVIDEOS]

What Software?

[handkor]

@CAILENVIDEOS This is done in real time using XNA on the PC or xbox360.

[AnKlMa]

How did you make these clouds? So smooth!!

[handkor]

@AnKlMa They are just clumps of smoky particles.

[PICLex]

Hey awesome, reminds me of Il2 :)

[2009MachineGun]

you should make the plane slow parent

[TheFXGuy]

I'm so subscribing to you. Procedural planet generation, hyper-realistic volumetrics and water surfaces, a pretty nice spaceship model, amazing atmospherics- what else do you need in a flight simulator/ space simulator?

[culpritdesign]

@TheFXGuy maybe some realistic flight dynamics, but hey sometimes more fun to look at the great design! haha!

[lagemegnorsk]

one thing to say, vroooooom ;)

[Krazykaveman]

It would sweet to see some self shadowing on those clouds, or at least some kind of normal mapping.

[Blender3dvids]

plz make a video tutorial

[lordikon82]

Looks awesome. It'd be sweet if the cloud particles were reflected in the water too. :)

[Slip819]

pure awesome. Congratulation its looking great.

[Webking271]

Cool! May I ask what cloud rendering technique you are using?

[handkor]

I'm just clustering particles in bunches and rendering them. I don't know if that technique has a name.

[tek5828]

ur rendering them, then what? adding the render to a plane? then getting the plane to track to camera ingame?

[handkor]

No I draw the particles directly to the framebuffer in real time. No camera tracking necessary cause they are drawn in 3D like other objects.

[tek5828]

OMFG!!! HOW!! i thought it wasnt possible to have particles in recent blender 2.4+?

[handkor]

This is real-time in-game footage with XNA. This is not an animation.

[tek5828]

Oh, because i thought you cant have particles in blender GE- so your using XNA?

[handkor]

Yes I'm using my own particle engine in XNA.

[jijakuka]

@handkor  blender can do real time too (:

[JDoucette]

Looks great! Congrats.