Art-directed night sky with multiple layers of clouds? Advice for a novice

[Arkiras]

@MostHost_LA

What would be most helpful, is a system to draw up clouds in engine and render the final sprite as a finalized 2d transparent PNG.
Obviously that will lock in the light vector to a specific coordinate.

At which point for older cards you could loop several images based on the light vector incidence.

Not 100% sure I get what you’re describing but I’m reminded of the 6D fake particle lighting post on RealtimeVFX: Smoke Lighting and texture re-usability in Skull & Bones - Real Time VFX

Basically baking the lighting into the individual color channels and interpolating between them based on the light vector. Results are pretty nice:

Particles Poin tLight Support