/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I suggest making them solid, like modelling a rock, then adding a shitload of particle effects around them so you can't see the mesh that much.

Perhaps you could add a blur/opaque bloom shader to the clouds and their particle effects so they don't look as blocky.

Also, you could set the particle shader to multiply with the clouds so you can appreciate the shadows under them.

>>21559

Any way I could make them fluffy? More like give the illusion of being fluffy when the player interacts with them.

>>21565

You can try making the meshes like an incredibly viscous liquid where characters bounce over the surface, if your engine allows for this.

If you are using a custom engine, you can try to make the mesh "transparent" to the player when falling over them, then return them to the original "floor" of the cloud using a force-based approach. This way, your characters will look like they bounce over them.

Also make particles move whenever a character passes through them.

>>21559

This sounds sounds like it would work but it would take some really fancy particles to make it look decent, and would only work up close

The only way to get good clouds is to use 3d noise or a fluid and then do some sort of volume rendering with shadows, not easy.

>>21879

Not only not easy. Fluid simulations would probably bring any modern GPU to its knees, which is why they are almost always rendered offline.

Unless you mean really simple fluids using big "drops", in which case a good particle system would do the trick.

>>21926

Run the fluid sim at load time then just stop it and save as textures

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>>21936

That could work, but the OP specifically stated he wants clouds to be manipulable by the player (probably walking over it or something like that). He needs something fast and good looking to use during runtime.

>>22000

>animated clouds

> -fast

> -good looking

Pick one

That is unless you have researcher-level skills

>>22008

Mind you good looking doesn't have to mean realistic. If you find a good artstyle to emulate stylized clouds it could work just fine.

Cloudsspace

Volumetric shadows ahoy

Solid efdects with shadows.