New Plugins!

 I bought some more plugins, this lunch time.

Volumetric Clouds Generator

Oh clouds are lovely. 



Straight out of the box. 32 samples.

Physical Starlight and Atmosphere adding some nice lighting/background. 433 samples.

Complex volume clouds take some rendering, I can tell you. While the results are easy and visually stunning, the process is very slow.

Next up: Planetarium.

Worldcreator 2022-3 calling Blender, are you receiving?

 I watched Marin Klenker's excellent tutorial on importing world creator terrain into Blender. I was already using most of the workflow, but it contains some absolutely critical steps that I'd overlooked -- like using Splat maps to upscale textures in Blender. One of the problems with importing into Blender is that scenes tend to look a bit muddy and low resolution because the texture maps are too low-res.

Various quick projects. Next I need to double-down on the details, but for now I'm happy to play with the basics.

Inkwood

 I bought a set of pen and ink style shaders. They're pretty cool!

Inkwood 2.0 (https://blendermarket.com/products/inkwood)

I don't actually know how to use them yet, but just applying them can produce some spiffing results.

Blowing the dust off my landscape creation software. 

Private Asteroid

Rough version

Droomhais "Dreamhouse"

 

Queen-class liner (work-in-progress)