Cloudscape Seasons - v1.2d

[Leo_Rakes]

@NilsonLima

Hi [USER=“745197”]Leo Rakes[/USER]
I am aware of your struggling with TrueSky, since I watch that thread looking to learn from their mistakes (lol). You are right about the clouds not being sharp at the edges, this is because the texture space we are dealing is too broad, so we lose details and instead we get some performance, but we have ways to customize the clouds in an artistic way that TrueSky probably never would be able to, even the ability to handle cartoon and stylized cloud formations (if the person has the ability with complex material making).

The Clouds render in 4.22 and 4.23 in realtime raytracing, but you won’t be able to see them in reflections, because the material is of translucent type, and that is still a feature missing in the engine for realtime raytracing. If you mount a box with a glass material and place in front of a mirror surface you won’t see the reflection. You can use planar reflections, but that will only work for planes and not complex surface reflective objects (ie statues).

We are working in a new asset, called Sky Seasons, which is built with characteristics of TrueSky, and we got excellent visuals, but it was made for an earlier engine release and it requires a lot of changes to work with the new rendering module at 4.22 and 4.23, and also some more work with realtime raytracing. For you to check the progress, this is the thread: https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/marketplace/1566095-sky-seasons-wip. We hope to later bring the ability to the users change artistically the shapes and colors, but since we are targeting realism first, that will be made later, and since it was something we already explored with Cloudscape Seasons, we think it is completely doable. We have this asset with great priority because it is needed for a film and a game we got plans, but currently we are holding more development because we need to see the rendering module at the engine stable and with the missing features for translucency working, so we would be sure any issue is ours instead of the engine’s and we could deal with a stable software interface to work with.

Yes, we do need very high quality clouds, sharp edges, correct light relations, and sometimes even movie-level ones. TrueSky only meets some of the requirements.

I’ve seen your new volume cloud, and it really works very well. It looks very similar to TrueSky. I’m looking forward to seeing you make a real film-quality volume cloud system, and preferably it’s dynamic, so that we can have a stable and reliable high-quality volume cloud system!!

But I have a few questions about it:

1. Regarding the release date, I see that you seem to have stopped developing for some time in the middle? Then it was planned to be released from March to April 2019, but it seems that it has not been released yet. When will it be released?

2. Regarding the form of this plug-in, is it a C++ or blueprint project? If C++ projects are really slow and cumbersome in engine iteration, especially TrueSky, they have problems that have remained unresolved for years, and many of them are not particularly complex.

3. Regarding the form of the tool, is it a complete sky/climate system or just a sky system?