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The latest update on Moving clouds: Used the settings in my previous message to render a 300 frame flc. The look was very bad due to 8 bit color banding. (I wasn't surprised) movement was a little fast. Horizon concentration of the clouds was very realistic. Now on to Targa, The look was perfect, however still too fast on movement. It was a good storm brewing effect with the cloud colorset a little more gray. Putting the sky box object at an angle was the secret ingredient to creating the photo-realistic effect. ie. Very large white puffy clouds overhead and smaller more tightly packed clouds near the horizon. Need to slow down the speed more but with a lightning strike or two I think an artificial electrical storm could be made to look real. Hmmmm I wonder if plasma IPAS can be used some how????