Good 3D clouds

[Michaelj]

Well, I couldn't get the same rendering results with your second file (the one with the moving camera), but found the initial set-up to be extremely useful for what I was going for anyway. Using these settings will provide an excellent fly-through (though it does take forever to render), but unfortunately what you can't do in Dreamscape is pan your camera straight down to look at the cloud deck, since the clouds/sky don't exist past the arbitrary horizon line (a feature I've never liked since my first use of the software). I suppose a workaround for this would be to invert your camera and actually film the clouds from below, which would allow you to pan 'down' on them all you want.

I seem to remember another website where someone had posted some great cloudscapes he had created using Dreamscape, but he wasn't as generous as you were in sharing the settings he'd used to get them. Once again, thanks for the great assist.