Easy Clouds
EasyClouds
Procedural clouds that are easy to customize!
Contributing
If you'd like to support the continued development of this plugin please:
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
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!
Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.4\extensions\blender_org\easy_clouds_init _. py", line 98, in execute cnt.remove(cnt.get("Principled BSDF")) TypeError: Nodes.remove(): error with argument 1, "node" - Function.node does not support a 'None' assignment Node type