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Originally Posted by philip.ed
No I agree. But ReX just looks realistic, doesn't it? I think it could be achieved for 3D clouds, but we'll see.
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Well yes, it looks realistic because it's photographs of real clouds
Although the library is large, you do see the same clouds (in 2D plates!) again and again and...
I would be delighted if 3D volumetric clouds looked that good, but I'd settle for any sort of 3D volumetric cloud that formed part of a dynamic, moving, shifting weather engine (and what we've seen in terms of lighting at least so far looks great, I just want to see more types of weather).
Weather is one of the great pillars of immersion, for me. Some of the most evocative bits of all those great WWII books are weather related, whether it's pilots like Clostermann or Wellum dancing around the clouds in their Spitfires, or Gibson easing in and out of the channel murk and mist in a Beaufighter or Lancaster.
Summers days and fluffy cumulus are all very well, but I want to chase Ju88s through the mist and clag of a blustery autumn dawn with 500ft ceilings
10-01-2010, 06:07 PM
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