Jeff Mottle of CGarchitect has reviewed Digital Element‘s Aurora 1.0.
"Overall I was very impressed with the power of this plugin, and as I eluded to earlier the cloud FX type in particular. For high resolution renders it can be quite a challenge to get a sky that is both large enough and meets the look and overall feel of your rendering. With Aurora this is no longer an issue as you can render out whatever resolution you require using a myriad of settings to achive th exact look you are after. The only complaints I would have is the missing ability to automate the procedure of getting animated keyframes from the plugin and I would also have liked to see the ability to easily create large cloud maps that are tileable end to end for use on skydomes. With a bit of fiddling you can modify your output so that no clouds extend out of frame, thus creating a tileable maps, but actual tileable clouds would be a nice touch."
Product Review – Aurora 1.0
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