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Add-on Easy Clouds
Easy Clouds

Procedural clouds that are easy to customize.
Add-on by LunarKitten
About What's New Reviews Version History
Featured Image Nodes Handcrafted clouds built using just spherical clouds. rendered in EEVEE Cycles EEVEE Lonely Cloud

EasyClouds

Procedural clouds that are easy to customize!

Contributing

If you'd like to support the continued development of this plugin please:

ko-fi

And/Or

Contribute your time to the source code at the Codeberg Repo!

Features

See the backlog for planned features

  • One button creation of clouds:

    • Single cloud

    • Cloud layer

  • Convenient node groups to build your own clouds with

Usage

To create clouds after enabling the addon, navigate to the 3d view's sidebar and select Tool. Your find EasyCloud options under the Easy Clouds panel

Backlog

Feel free to suggest any features or changes you'd find helpful

  • (Completed! v2.1) Separated Cycles and EEVEE shader

  • (Completed! v2.2) Spherical cloud create button

  • Modifier panel

  • Optimize bounding box in geonodes

  • Geonodes based cloud builder

  • Mesh based clouds inspired by this tutorial

Inspirations and References

  • Texture Generation using Random Noise

  • Coding Adventure: Clouds

  • 3 Minutes to Perfect Clouds in Blender 3D

  • Blender Python - Scripting Series


What's New

2.2.0 February 7th, 2025

v2.2 Released

Spherical Clouds Update

  • New "Create Sphere" button to create a spherical cloud. Use it to hand craft certain details or entire clouds!

Behind the Scenes

I've started on better cloud bounding boxes using geonodes. Additionally modifier control was suggested by a user, so welcome new backlog item: "Modifier Panel" which I'll be reading up on blenders api to implement!

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Developer
LunarKitten
Rating
(3)
Version
2.2.0
Updated
3 mo
Published
Jan. 21st, 2025
Downloads
18042
Size
10.4 KB
Compatibility
Blender 4.2  and newer
Website
codeberg.org/LunarKitten/EasyClouds
Report Issues
codeberg.org/LunarKitten/EasyClouds/issues
License
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Reviews

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  • Corey-Wray
  • v2.2.0
  • 1 mo

Great addon. Just here trying to ask a question, how do I sample the normals to generate a normal map for a 2d image?

  • LunarKitten replied
  • 1 mo

Right now the clouds are volumetric shapes inside a simple cube/sphere. Creating meshes with geometry nodes is in the works for the next update, but progress has been slower then I'd like due to my time being taken up by work.

As a workaround for now:

  • Create an empty scene without any environment
  • Create a sun or square light pointing from the camera to the cloud
  • Use the cloud lit straight on as a height map (the bump node can convert it to a normal map)
  • Istvan-Nagy
  • v2.1.0
  • 3 mo

thousands of thanks for all your work on the extension, wishing you loads of loads of success in implementing the earlier planned functions, improvements.

  • aptass
  • v2.1.0
  • 3 mo

Clouds looks great. Easy to tweak the looks in shader editor

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