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Thanks, Profbetis!

Excellent solution!
Thanks a lot!!

Nice!

Thanks a lot. Brilliant solution

Small video:

http://youtu.be/Saqh05jry7I

Very pretty! Glad I could help

Would it be possible to post a step by step tutorial on how to achieve this in Octane Standalone - particularly the material settings (I don't use 3DS Max). Does this technique require setting up the materials for SSS?

I would really like to try this - thanks!

thanks for the info, will keep it bookmarked for future reference.. looks like it could be scripted

Pegot, the material setup is the same as it is in standalone.

What an ingenious technique! I tried this workflow and it produces really nice-looking clouds, although they're quite heavy to render.

pegot: You don't need to (and in fact CAN'T) use scattering, since the clouds are made up of 1-sided planes which don't have any volume in themselves. My material setup for the clouds is a simple specular material with a high transmission value and a roughness of 1. Your kernel also needs to have a high value for diffuse depth, so that light penetrates the lowest layers of your cloud stack.

Thanks for the additional tips - more or less got it now, very cool technique. Is there a LUA script for animating the offset property in Octane stand alone?