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PROCEDURALLY GENERATE GIGANTIC CLOUDSCAPES

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Perfect your Viewport

To better visualise in the Viewport, activate the Override Look option and adjust the density and shadow as needed, also add a Sky Light at the object level.

01 START OFF SMALL

When we're working with volumes, our computers may experience high pressure. That's why it's vital to have a coherent balance between dimensions and voxel size.

When we place a Skybox node by default, the values provided by Houdini are optimal to start configuring our clouds (Voxel Size 5, Bound Size 1000, 200, 1000). If your computer tends to work harder when processing this load, you could increase the Voxel Size to 7 or 8; however, higher values wouldn't allow you to see the initial details necessary when configuring your clouds.

Also, suppose that you intend to work on vast fields of sky. In

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