How To Make Volumetric Clouds (Blender Tutorial)

In this blender tutorial you will learn how to make volumetric clouds in blender 2.9. We are going to use the mesh to volume modifier to create our volumetric clouds. This is an easy to follow beginner tutorial. If you follow this tutorial, post your renders on Instagram and tag me to get a shout out.
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Timestamps ►
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Creating Clouds in Blender
01:14 Modelling the Cloud Mesh
02:05 Adding Mesh Displacement using the Displacement Modifier
03:26 Mesh to Volume Modifier
04:45 Volume Displace Modifier
05:25 Volumetric Cloud Material & Rendering the Cloud
07:15 Our Volumetric Cloud is Done!
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[@maxleveladventures]

Most efficient and least annoying cloud tutorial out of the first 7 or so videos I watched. Cheers!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks! And appreciate the support!

[@Raitan2008]

man, at first that cloud was looking sus, but then you hit that last modifier and BAM! we have a cloud!

[@shimatangt]

Pocket: The first thing i will do
Me: He will delete the cube
Pocket: Is select the light
Me: wHAT?

[@pinkpocketTV]

😂

[@dylmc9620]

My smart ass already had it deleted before he got there! xD

[@deepeshparihar7362]

@@dylmc9620 Same here bro. xD

[@_4shy]

Dude you're literally covering all my needs right now. I cannot thank you enough!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks

[@Devour_]

Amazing tutorial! Simple straight to the point and gives great results. Well worth a sub

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@beebee4963]

Amazing tutorial! Super quick and easy to follow thank you! 🙏🏽

[@Urbansprint5100]

Honestly dude. You make the best tutorials out of any blender youtuber I've seen. Easiest to understand and follow along with. Thanks for the help!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, really appreciate the support and thanks for watching!

[@kariduanimations]

This is an extremely good tutorial, very to the point 👏

[@jennymerlin1121]

Clear, short and very helpful ! THANK YOU !

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@h.e.pennypacker1843]

Great tutorial! Like someone else said this is the best and easiest cloud tutorial I've come across. Thanks!

[@WoozaStories]

satisfied with the results :) thank you for sharing such info!

[@NiteshKumar-dn4em]

Dude great tutorial but volume modifier not showing I mean when I click on Add modifier the "Mesh to volume" and "volume displace " not showing
I have checked that Volume Empty was selected

[@jacobdesioreviews]

That happened to me too. Update to the newest version of blender and reload your project and the option will be there. Hope that helps.

[@alicegu1888]

@@jacobdesioreviews Me too. I was using 2.90 and changing to 2.93 solved my problem. Thanks a lot!

[@mambaman2007]

As usual another very useful tutorial. Many thanks.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@iwoodmac]

Thank you!

[@valeeeriava3654]

Amazing, big job!!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks

[@kotakuk6533]

Great tut!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@CreepyMagicalBeing666]

Thank you very much! Very clean and clear explanation!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@KaazRood]

This is great, thank you!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@medicenlincy]

amazing video, thanks for make it bro, you're awesome

[@futdook]

Great simple tutorial, thanks!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@hunimoonz]

your tutorials are so good

[@user-mm9nn8gu7w]

ty , amazing tutorial

[@boxmeta1834]

Thankyou so much Sensei !!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching. Appreciate the support!

[@deu07053]

Thanks to you, I was able to copy it easily.

[@stevenweaver9902]

this has made my animation for a cloud a 1000 times more realistic, thank you! great demo, new subscriber here!!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@HosseinThePoet]

This is Gold!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks

[@AJMXRRIS]

@@pinkpocketTV What did you press at 4:29?

[@mnswz3140]

@@AJMXRRIS H, as in hide

[@jeremieawolou1425]

Perfect ! Thanks

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks 👍

[@Lance_G]

Brilliant tutorial!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@sasasijak9649]

Thank you very much, it is a great tutorial for creating the clouds in a simple way!!!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@jensworld779]

Thank you so much for this helpful and clear tutorial! 😀

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks for watching. Appreciate the support.

[@leekolb2027]

Perfect, thank you.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@steprockmedia]

Nice result - easy to follow along.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@moritzscherner5618]

great stuff, thank you!!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@mattzart]

wow! thank you. exactly what i was looking for. subscribed!!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks! Appreciate the support!

[@tagnenjosephs3124]

Thank you this was an amazing tutorial!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@nuke2625]

This is great man. Thanx

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@HammerdownProtocol]

Nice one. This helped a lot.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@penguinval7]

Thats exactly what I was looking for

[@fullyleaded]

Awesome video. Thank you

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@Mocap-Chan-ys4zv]

This worked right away! Thank you so much

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks for watching! Appreciate the support!

[@stefanguiton]

Great stuff

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks 👍

[@karaelzexceed666]

this is epic :D
also if u ain't got a cloud texture add the empty volumetric, connect it to mesh then play around with extruding cloud mesh faces (around 25 random ones in pairs of 3) and use proportional editing till the smoky part looks decent/ not blocky then hide cloud. Works in eevee at least.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching! Appreciate the support!

[@onatic8058]

This is such a good tutorial you've earned my sub

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks! Appreciate the sub!

[@user-qw2lk5kv8e]

you are so amazing 🥺👍

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thank you so much!!

[@tayyebeharshi7763]

very very helpful! thank you! I just had a concern with cloud color which i solved by assigning a value of 4 to light path of volume in render and it came out perfect! thanks again for sharing!

[@mateuszpawowicz258]

Very helpfull. Thanks

[@qeuplx]

Bro thanks so much

[@aloomia826]

great man !!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@cloudatycs]

yees this is what i needed!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks

[@cayetanoparra8277]

seriously this was the best video I've seen about creating Clouds. Thanks @pinkpocketTv

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching

[@jesse.mobile]

thank you!

[@piersregan7586]

Thank you.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@petrknedlik]

awesome, thank you :)

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@truerockmediavi6929]

Thanks a lot

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@studiosbonsoir]

Great video!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks!

[@mikerusby]

looks cool, ( dashes off to try it)

[@kidusfikre5471]

thanks for the tutorial

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@florvallaud5574]

thank you :)

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching! Appreciate the support.

[@yukikurosu99]

thanks!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@486x]

thx

[@YuvrajSingh-ds9uf]

Thank you
you are best

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching ☺️

[@mehul1796]

thank you sir for this

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching ☺️

[@elijahlalkrossmawia4091]

Thanks a lot nice tut....

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching ☺️

[@simomag3384]

man i couldnt find the volume to mech modifier should i turn some add on on if yes tell under what name and thank u so much

[@manday3058]

thaks men!!!

[@nirvana_xo]

yo this is sickkkkkk

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@DacArtpsy]

Thank you for this tutorial, do you know how would I achive effect of "poping" that cloud, like I want it to "pooof" in smaller cloud balls/parts

[@narazieniemam]

I realy apreciate this tutorial. Have one question though: the cloud texture size limit is 2 - is there a way to increase it? I need to apply this method to a larger object

[@riotboybroski]

very good guide :D

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@saitamacraft5322]

Question. On 4:28. I dont understand what you said. I dont know what to do on this part to make the cloud hidden

[@pawlokkom]

I also understand, what happend in this moment

[@herlenmeireles7484]

It looks like it has hidden the geometry created initially and left only the VDB. That's what I understood!

[@KA1DMusic]

Using this for my next music video, Thanks a lot!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@toomuchcandor3293]

for the cloud mesh cant we just use metaballs and arrange them in fluffy basic blockouts

[@creativilee]

Thanks for the tutorial! One question tho, I can't seem to move my cloud.?

[@number1forthewin]

thank you brother! new subscriber here. more power!

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks for the sub! Appreciate the support!

[@Rifkizen_]

so good

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@stefanusfebynauvalimnauval9994]

we need mentor like you keep it up

[@pinkpocketTV]

Hey, thanks for watching!

[@Darkone2k9]

Im going to press shifting 😂, Nice tutorial!

[@dreamcrusher1515]

Big up for this great tutorial! Everything looks fine but I still have question: You can't apply the modifiers at the end. You will get an error "Cannot apply modifier for this object type". Without applying the modifiers, you aren't be able to delete the cube and to export the vdb-cloud. How do you solve this problem?

[@michaelsoto9869]

The fix for this is: in the 'Scene Selection' box go to the "Toggle Restrictions" dropdown in the upper right and select the "Disable in Renders" icon in the top row (camera icon). Then click that same "Disable in Renders" icon that's to the right of your cube. Now when rendering that object won't appear in the final.

[@dreamcrusher1515]

@@michaelsoto9869 Thx for the answer but this isn't solve the applying-modifiers bug. I want to export the vdb-files, without being able to apply the modifiers the cloud will not become a vdb cloud

[@harshitrao8729]

Honestly man
U upload right when I needed the most.

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks 😊

[@happy_bacon]

bro thx

[@MatthewGromov]

This is awesome tutorial, which helps me how to make realistic clouds in Blender :)

[@blackswan6386]

how i can colorize this cloud, want to make it blue ?! thanks

[@nilayg6807]

More helpful than the CG Matter tutorial I saw b4 this

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks

[@udin5576]

thanks for knowlegde

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks!

[@joshjen1129]

Hi man! Just stubbles across your video and they’re amazing! I was wondering if you could do this same tutorial for Unreal Engine 5? They removed tessellation so I’m completely lost on how to do it now

[@pinkpocketTV]

Yeah for UE5 you have to use Virtual Heightfield Mesh and Virtual Textures to do the landscape displacement.

[@team.killus5099]

i love you bro

[@russellclar111]

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[@cafesstuff887]

Bro, how to apply the modifiers in volume, I need it to so that I could delete the cube

[@HistoryclassbydrMeera]

Great tutorial friend , thanks , you are best , you deserve more
Love you mate
Help me to make mountains on blender pls !

[@basejumperdx4573]

Can we integrate it in live cg?

[@mnswz3140]

gee thanks man

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks

[@kokerosbor]

Nice tutorial! but When I try to move the cloudit doesn't work, just the yellow point moves

[@yannick5116]

my render still is a little bit edgy and pixelated. does anyone know why? i tried a higher resolution and also tried it with more samples... but its still pixelated at some points

[@aleksandragigiel6996]

Do you maybe know why I can't change the place of the cloud? I want to change its location but it doesn't move, it rotates instead.

[@Sober-MindedYT]

You need to move the actual mesh, not the volume empty.

[@AungThu-qy1yt]

bro, how can I move that cloud from left or right & up or down?
I tried with G key but it doesn't work?
Can you please tell me that?

[@deepeshparihar7362]

My Render was also showing the cube so I tried disabling the cube visibilty of camera from object properties. Still the end results are not great. i can see holes inside my cloud and they are at center. looking really ugly. Any solution for that?

[@timtaxevasion]

gotta love how the thumbnail shows a cloud that looks nothing like the one in the tutorial

[@sunghwan6031]

how do you create a volume? the option does not seem to be appearing for me like it did for you. Is there a plugin that I have to use?

[@pgoitiaa]

you need to update blender to 2.91 version

[@atharvadnere851]

Big fan

[@pinkpocketTV]

Thanks, appreciate the support!

[@WilliamHopperMusician]

Using this method, I can animate movement in the cloud, but cannot move the cloud across my scene as it woulda with winds. I've tried all I know. Can you advise on how to move the volume?

[@WilliamHopperMusician]

Solved it. I added the animation to the cloud object before I added the modifiers.

[@chizo5594]

If you didn't understand what he said at 4:20 he said that you need to hide it (press h)