Quick and dirty glowing cloud tutorial (GIMP)

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Shadow Knight
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Quick and dirty glowing cloud tutorial (GIMP)

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Hello all, I was mucking around in Gimp working on a skybox for a Jedi Outcast map and I discovered a technique to make quick and easy nebula-like clouds.

Alrighty, First off, create an image of whatever dimensions you want and fill the page with black.

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Next, create a new layer and decide what colour you want the clouds to be. I'll do red (#FFFFFF) for this tutorial. Fill the second layer with this colour and set its opacity down to about 7.4

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Create a new layer and use filters -> render -> clouds -> solid noise. The critical options here are randomize and turbulent. Having a higher detail presumably makes sharper clouds (I haven't fiddled with this yet).

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Set the layer to "Soft light" on the layers dialogue, which will leave you with something like this:

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Create another layer and generate some more clouds, Ctrl-F should be sufficient here if you ticked Randomize. Set the layer to "Divide" and there you go!

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Hopefully this is useful to someone besides me.
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:shock: 8-) thats realy cool I need some thing like that for one of my units.
:?: wate which version of Gimp are you using mine dose not have the same tools.
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Use the newest one.

Also, Jedi Outcast! Where I learned to mod! :-D
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Re: Quick and dirty glowing cloud tutorial (GIMP)

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I'm using Gimp 2.6.6, but it would probably be the same for later versions as well (Unless they reshuffled the filter lists again)
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