mbr Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I would like to start making my own skies. I have started to alter some of the ones I have (like the Marlin skies) in PS, but would like to find some software that allows more control. Dreamscape looks great, but a little expensive for making static skies (has anyone made animated skies with Dreamscape? It looks promising, but i can imagine the hardware needed to animate and generate the sky!). Any ideas? Painter? Plain ol' PS? Plugins? Bryce looks interesting, but not sure if it's worth it for only making skies. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 1. Vue 2. Terragen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 3. bryce 4. c4d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jape Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I would check out Aurora sky, its a After effects plugin though i think its also compatible with combustion... aurora Sky allows you to create realistic three-dimensional skies. This plug-in gives you a wide variety of special effects that are substantially more powerful and flexible than simple fractal clouds. Create suns, stars, haze, volumetric light ? anything you can imagine I downloaded a demo once, though i never used it cause i did not have combustion/AE, and that would have been way to expensive, Link--> http://www.digitalanarchy.com/product_aurora.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I would like to start making my own skies.Bryce looks interesting, but not sure if it's worth it for only making skies.. It isn't. You get the same sky generator in the KPT6 filter set. It can be bought from corel, though they have re-packaged the KPT filter series in a strange way. The results are good, but not as good as... Terragen--kicks ASS! But slow as my 9 year-old when its clean-up time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted March 9, 2004 Author Share Posted March 9, 2004 Thanks for the replies. Vue is very similar to Bryce. The images I've seen are 'almost' great, but still CG fake. Aurora is something that would be interesting. I'd like to be able to animate the skies and (I assume) it'd be easier to make them in AE than Dreamscape (and a lot cheaper!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackb602 Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I use Ozone with Cinema 4D for very photoreal skies. It offers a huge range of settings (more than I know what to do with) and a great library of presets. It's also fully animatable. Ozone is a plugin for Cinema (also available for Lightwave) but it's made by the people who make Vue (http://www.e-onsoftware.com/) and Vue seems to have the same sky generating capabilities. The documentation could definitely be better, but it's a very capable program. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 and did we mention that Terragen is FREE (at least for now) A test, not at the best settings, either. Hum, the image shows in the post editor, but not in the preview...I must figure out this new image upload situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 http://www.digi-element.com Check out Aurora Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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