What would be a way I could recreate this thick dust cloud?

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I’m talking about the big “wall” of smoke at the start of this video Star Citizen - work with sand storm effects | эффекты песчаной бури - YouTube

Thank you

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I am finishing making this asset like this to put in Marketplace… it will not be expensive. So if you need it you will have to wait a bit, it will cost $20 bucks. I am using raymarching to acomplish this, but there are other ways to achieve:

  • particles for the dust being blown
  • volumetric fog (modeling dense and colored points to simulate dust) and using a mix of curl noise to move some random dust (it will be the most cheap regarding performance but less detail, when compared with raymarching)
  • particles for the lighting
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Thanks for the reply, could you expand on the curl noise a little if you don’t mind, and I’d love to check out your marketplace asset when it’s done,

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Could you expand on the volumetric fog way of doing it if possible? and I’d love to check out your assets when they’re done! Thanks

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checkout Ryan Brucks blog

also the shaderbits plugin has amazing stuff in it
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