Volumetric Cloud by Elentor

Volumetric Cloud by Elentor
http://filterforge.com/filters/13772.html

Absolutely excellent work!

Starting to feel like FilterForge library can use some more game-engine / 3D asset stuff.

Together with my Star Field and Panorama to Cubemap projections, I've been using this filter to produce and retouch some nice looking nebula cubemaps.

CaliCoastReplay, thanks for the interest.

The above examples were made with completely different methods. I'll think of a decent write-up for my next usage of the filter and once I do so, I'll post a more in-depth explanation.

From memory, I can give you some general directions in regards to the first cloud images I posted.

The shader was a bit more complex than this, but the general gist is that I converted the depth map to a Normal, used the Alpha map for the cloud with the normal on a billboard.

I then used the depth map itself on the shader along with a very exaggerated normal map created from the low-frequency information. This can be extrapolated from the "Get Shape" toggle, as well as a big blur applied to the final normal. The low-frequency normal is used to create a soft transifion in the cloud shape. You can use it to increase the transference of light to the cloud based on depth to simulate a faux subsurface scattering.

At the end there were only two textures - High-Frequency Normal (Generated from Depth, which is just the filter with GetAlpha and GetShape disabled) + Alpha (GetAlpha toggle), Low-frequency Normal (Generated from Filter with GetShape) + Depth.