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I'm attempting to recreate a scene with a cloudy backdrop from blender render to cycles.

I have a metaball which I've applied the cloud tool on to make good looking clouds and have set a plane with transparency and a cloud texture, on top of that the world color is a color which compliments the other colors in the scene.

I am unsure as to how I would go about converting this to cycles.

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  • Related: http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/44941/is-there-an-easy-way-to-make-volumetric-clouds-for-cycles and http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/6835/how-to-create-and-render-clouds-in-blender-cycles –  Aug 05 '16 at 00:36

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Depending on what you want, your best option may be to just make a procedural sky. Here is a great tutorial for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6wTyfAO04 Making the clouds procedural will save you a ton on render times. Although, if you are trying to fly through the clouds, they would need to be more volumetric and realistic. Here is a great tutorial by BlenderGuru just for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ_OcBh7F5I

To make a simple cloud all you really need to do is connect a Volume Scatter node to your materials volume input.

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You can raise the density for a more stormy look.

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    Thanks, that helped a lot! I could find tutorials and ways to make the clouds themselves but I couldnt find the way to make the sky that way as well, thanks for that. – Sookendestroy Aug 04 '16 at 18:11
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    add some noise texture to the Density and a bit of variation to the color to fake detail within the volume. this way your model can stay quite simple. – aliasguru Aug 04 '16 at 18:41
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