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• Effects > How to Make Realistic Clouds using Maya Fluids (Posted By: Avi Morgan)
• :: Post Date: 2008-02-23 20:11:33 [Post Comment] [Post Articles]

• How to Make Realistic Clouds using Maya Fluids Software: Maya Author: Avi Morgan Author Website: http://www.avimorgan.com/ PART I - CLOUDS 01. Create a 3D Fluid Container: "Fluid Effects" -> "Create 3D Container". 02. Access the Attributes of the 3D Container. 03. Set the 'Container Properties' to the following values: X Resolution: 75 Y Resolution: 10 Z Resolution: 75 X Size: 25 Y Size: 05 Z Size: 25 04. Set the 'Contents Method' attributes to the following values: Density: Off (zero) Velocity: Off (zero) 05. Set the 'Shading' attributes to the following values: Transparency (R, G, B): 0.090 Edge Dropoff: 0.50 06. Set the 'Color' attributes to the following values: Point 1 -- Position: 0.00 / Selected Color: White Point 2 -- Position: 0.75 / Selected Color: Grey Point 3 -- Position: 1.00 / Selected Color: Black Color Input: Y Gradient 07. Set the 'Opacity' attributes to the following values: Point 1 -- Position: 1.00 / Selected Value: 0.95 Point 2 -- Position: 0.80 / Selected Value: 0.80 Point 3 -- Position: 0.60 / Selected Value: 0.60 Point 4 -- Position: 0.50 / Selected Value: 0.35 Point 5 -- Position: 0.45 / Selected Value: 0.00 Set the 'Opacity Input' to "Constant", and the 'Input Bias' to "0.03". 08. Set the 'Shading Quality' to "3.00". 09. Set the 'Textures' attributes to the following values: Texture Color: On Texture Opacity: On Amplitude: 0.95 Ratio: 0.40 Frequency Ratio: 2.75 Depth Max: 4 Inflection: On Frequency: 1.95 Finished with the clouds! Now let's make the sky... PART II - SKY 01. Create another 3d Fluid Container. 02. Access the Container's attributes. 03. Set the 'Container Properties' to the following values: X Resolution: 25 Y Resolution: 05 Z Resolution: 25 Set the Size of this container so that it's large enough to encompass your clouds. 04. Set the 'Contents Method' attributes to the following values: Density: Off (zero) Velocity: Off (zero) 05. Set the 'Shading' attributes to the following values: Transparency (R, G, B): 0.85 Edge Dropoff: 0.35 06. Access the 'Color' Subsection and set the 'Selected Color' to Black. 07. Set the 'Incandescence' attributes to the following values: Point 1 -- Position: 0.000 / Selected Color: R 0.50, G 0.75, B 3.000 Point 2 -- Position: 1.000 / Selected Color: R 0.85, G 0.90, B 1.000 08. Set the 'Incandescent Input' to "Y Gradient," and the 'Input Bias' to "-0.25". 09. Access the 'Opacity' Subsection and set the value of both points to "0.85". 10. To emphasize the shading of the clouds, access the 'Lighting' Subsection and set the 'Self Shadow' on. Adjust the Opacity level to your desire. That's it for creating a realistic sky with clouds!

• Comments: (Currently there are 26 comments.)
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• • [Anonymous]parveen ( 2010-01-31 14:59:31 ) [Post Comments]

  • thanks

  • [Anonymous] ( 2010-01-06 11:05:18 ) [Post Comments]

  • I don't understand why my picture is still very blue and opaque.

  • [Anonymous]somebody ( 2009-11-28 14:52:18 ) [Post Comments]

  • If the screen doesn't show the way it supposed to be, try out click the number 4,5,6 key on your keyboard. It might shift the screen view to clouds view, non color view or clouds split view. :)

  • [Anonymous]somebody ( 2009-11-28 14:10:51 ) [Post Comments]

  • Try out 4 5 6 number keys on your keyboard. It will shift your screen to three view non-colored view, cloud view, cloud split view. :)

  • [Anonymous]somebody ( 2009-11-28 14:09:05 ) [Post Comments]

  • If the screen doesn't show the way it supposed to be, try out click the number 4,5,6 key on your keyboard. It might shift the screen view to clouds view, non color view or clouds split view. :)

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-11-16 22:16:47 ) [Post Comments]

  • good tutorial.... it worked really good.... thanx man ...

  • [Anonymous]satya.424@gmail.com ( 2009-11-16 17:42:16 ) [Post Comments]

  • very nice & easy , thank's for the cloud's

  • [Anonymous]harry ( 2009-10-23 10:45:50 ) [Post Comments]

  • how to make the grid on the clouds and sky to disappear during animation?

  • [Anonymous]arnel ( 2009-10-19 15:36:49 ) [Post Comments]

  • good cloud maya tutorial

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-10-15 01:34:57 ) [Post Comments]

  • Nice tut, i follwed the whole thing and works fine, but how to get them moving ?

  • [Anonymous]Pavel ( 2009-09-09 03:06:15 ) [Post Comments]

  • pres "6" to see them as clouds, but i couldn't maneg to make the render options, so the totorial sucks :( and i was so thrild when i found it, if some one can heklp mewith this....

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-06-25 01:22:59 ) [Post Comments]

  • I went up to step nine and the clouds stayed as a solid block, how do you make them look like real clouds.

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-06-11 14:26:31 ) [Post Comments]

  • very nice tutorial, thanks

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-05-09 01:54:28 ) [Post Comments]

  • thanks alot for taking your time to share your knowlege, i and many of us really appreciate it. keep up the good work! /Adam

  • yogesh ( 2009-04-01 15:08:46 ) [Post Comments]

  • I think instead of 0.85 in both points at about step 9, the points should actually be .02 and .85 these settings work in final render ! rest will say a good tut.

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-03-20 13:33:30 ) [Post Comments]

  • For you to see the clouds in step #9 you need to make sure that you turn-on hardware texturing so that you can see the clouds...go to Shading -> Hardware Texturing under the scene view menu.

  • [Anonymous]xfuture911 ( 2009-01-31 09:36:59 ) [Post Comments]

  • thankx good and i try it..

  • [Anonymous] ( 2009-01-06 06:42:06 ) [Post Comments]

  • tutorial sucks, followed it EXACTLY and the clouds work great, but the sky is a complete flop. Doesn't render in the preview window NOR in the actual render. Step 9 must be missing something, because that screenshot does NOT show what happens with the steps given. Any help please mail bokunoshijun@yahoo.com

  • [Anonymous]hani4d ( 2009-01-03 05:31:16 ) [Post Comments]

  • thanx so much

  • [Anonymous]MacMan ( 2008-12-29 05:21:11 ) [Post Comments]

  • I followed this tutorial and everything seems perfect up till step #9 the sky section. Mine doesn't show the clouds in the "air" volume like the picture. Then when I render everything is in a light blue "fog or haze". Everything is washed out not at all like the final image. Also, what direction is the camera facing for the final render? Is it placed in the cloud bank? Is it shot from the bottom or top or sides? This is a 3D volume so should be able to get similar results moving around in the clouds right? What about the rendering settings? Could I be missing something there? I think its something missing around step #9 mine looks the same but the air is too "thick and opaque". :-( M

  • [Anonymous]MacMan ( 2008-12-29 04:51:18 ) [Post Comments]

  • I followed this tutorial and everything seems perfect up till step #9 the sky section. Mine doesn't show the clouds in the "air" volume like the picture. Then when I render everything is in a light blue "fog or haze". Everything is washed out not at all like the final image. Also, what direction is the camera facing for the final render? Is it placed in the cloud bank? Is it shot from the bottom or top or sides? This is a 3D volume so should be able to get similar results moving around in the clouds right? What about the rendering settings? Could I be missing something there? I think its something missing around step #9 mine looks the same but the air is too "thick and opaque". :-( M

  • [Anonymous]MacMan ( 2008-12-29 04:21:49 ) [Post Comments]

  • I followed this tutorial and everything seems perfect up till step #9 the sky section. Mine doesn't show the clouds in the "air" volume like the picture. Then when I render everything is in a light blue "fog or haze". Everything is washed out not at all like the final image. Also, what direction is the camera facing for the final render? Is it placed in the cloud bank? Is it shot from the bottom or top or sides? This is a 3D volume so should be able to get similar results moving around in the clouds right? What about the rendering settings? Could I be missing something there? I think its something missing around step #9 mine looks the same but the air is too "thick and opaque". :-( M

  • [Anonymous]jack issa ( 2008-08-01 20:12:59 ) [Post Comments]

  • good work

  • [Anonymous] ( 2008-05-04 21:19:23 ) [Post Comments]

  • How does this tutorial differ from the default clouds from the visor built into maya? It seems like you've simply copied a default setting and made a 'tutorial' out of it....

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