This new trend of making minutes long blender tutorials is a long time coming.

Man, you're a genius to convert an ocean to clouds. What can't you do with Blender, man?!

Here are the issues I faced making this in blender 4.0 and HOW I FIXED THEM. 1. Apply the ocean modifier before going to edit mode to select the non-manifold 2. press F to fill the face 3. In the materials for the plane, make sure to add the principled volume in the volume section (make sure it's not surface) 4. Recalculate normals by going into edit mode, select all then press Alt + N then choose flip. if it doesn't work, go to edit mode again, select all press SHIFT + N. you can alos try "INSIDE" 5. DON'T USE AREA LIGHT. instead create a cube, flatten it on z axis, add a new material to it and CRANK UP the strength of the emission 😂 then replace the area light with it. 6. remeber to rotate the sun. click R + Z + 180 to rotate it to the right direction 7. the cloud is under the plane mesh, so don't get stuck looking at the covered face 8. CRANK UP the density of the mesh to about 200 (you can try what works for you) 9. mess with the emmission strength of the cube, the density of plane, and strength of sun 10. make sure you're in rendered view, make sure your render engine is set to cycles. 11. the displace modifier, change the strength to a negative number e.g -0.3 BONUS TIP: if it's still not looking right, Go to render settings, navigate to "Light" uncheck "light tree" I hope these tips were helpful. Happy building! cheers 🙂

Apply ocean modifier (in object mode) → deselect your mesh → shift to edit mode → make sure you are in edges or vertices mode not face → then select > non manifold should be available. This helped me on 12/16/2021 for date referencing

For any later comers , if you have problem with extruding the edges. You shoud first select apply from the down drop arrow next to the ocean modifier name.

For 2.90.1 users, the apply is on the dropdown arrow on the name of modifier. Apply the modifier, then go into edit mode for "non manifold select"

For any latecomers like me, you can only select 'non manifold' when in edge or vertex selection mode, if you are in face select the option doesn't appear

This works really well when combined with the "Mesh to Volume" and "Volume Displace" modifiers

This is the best blender tutorial I've seen! No bullshit, just straight to the point.

What I actually understood was two things: "Make a new project" and "that's some clouds".

It would be fantastic to have this updated. Such a unique and useful tutorial

This is the type of work arounds that make people smile! Simple, smart, effective!

This is so good! Short but gets the point across. This format makes finding answers wayyy easier.

I've been wanting to make a stormy sky in a while and this is just PERFECT. Thank you!

If anyone is having trouble with the selecting all non-manifold edges, go into object mode and convert it to a mesh, then you are able to do it

Love this unconventional yet aesthetic use of the ocean modifier!

Thank You So Much. As A Beginner It Took ME A Couple Times Slowing The Video Down TO Keep Up, But I Am Grateful That It Was Concise

honestly the best and most easy way to make clouds in blender. Actually astounded that not a lot more people are doing this!

This is very innovative! I've never seen someone use the ocean modifier as clouds! That's awesome!

Really enjoyed this one, I would love to see more tutorials like this from you. Keep up the good work!

If your cloud is black, make sure you volume texture node is plugged into volume on the material output node. NOT SURFACE!!!

Really nice results, quick simple and a very pleasing result!

this is the best ☁️ tutorial out there..the thumbnail says it all❤️🔥🔥thank you

I am always so sorry for the cube.. shes like HERE HERE pick me pick me :(

This tutorial litteraly saved my entier Fim festival project.. i cannot tell you how long it took me to find a decent cloud tutorial that I could replicate

astonishing simplicity!! who would have thought! keep your good stuff coming pleaaaase

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR YEARS! THANK YOU!!!

this is so cool! thank you! i watched a tutorial for clouds that used nodes and it was really cool too but i cannot for the life of me make it work. this is really helpful and nice!! will try it later!!

this is hands down amazing. Thank you!

This is super!! My mind is already swimming with ideas!

Now this is just magic! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for showing this great tutorial and happy blending with Blender 3d

This is incredible. I'm going to use this next time I end up rendering something.

What an interesting approach! Thank you so much for sharing this

That tutorial was AWESOME super inspiring mate!

You can always use the smooth modifier and repeat in the modifier to get the same result if the displace doesn't work ;) tip for 1:00

What a great idea, never thought of that!

Just realized that the ocean can be used for an electron microscope zoomed in surface look.

This was a great tutorial, thank you!

Love tutorials like this... subbed, hope to see more

absolutely blessed, thank you SO much for this

Very cool! Can't wait to play with this

Bless you sir, I've been looking for a way to make decent clouds using homogeneous volumes for a while now!

UNBELEIVABLE! FANTASTIC!

Wow. That crazy!! Really creative.

If you have problem with light tots and displace does not help that much, try to use remesh modifier, but make sure you dont have overkill with polycount cuz this is power consuming

amazing tutorial! Great idea!

This was interesting, I feel as though my computer isn't strong enough to render these clouds but it was cool learning more about how some of these functions work

Damn man this video challenges me. Recalculate normal is Alt + N then choose flip

I have no words...You're a genius.

dude! it looks amazing!!!!!

You could probably even animate this! Since the ocean modifier is procedural. Genius!

Remember to apply modifier (ocean) before trying to enter edit mode.

This is a really cool effect. Thankyou :-)

I tried to recalculate normals from outside and nothing happened. then I tried inside and still nothing happened. What am I missing between these steps?

if the ocean modifier doesn't look like the one in the video, try doing it from an exactly new project and looking at it from the bottom. looks different from the top than it is on its downside

wonderful tutorial

the casual badassery is a nice touch

WOW.. just subscribed. Crazy how you can do the impossible with blender. But soon it will be on top

Holy crap, that's amazing.

Wooo, amazing!

Well, this is just one of those random ideas you get when playing around with stuff, ain't it. Cool video, keep up the good work. :)

Great stuff king

Fantastic. Thank you.

Thanks!

Thank you for using Cycles! Most of the tutorials are for Eevee now.

It took me a gajillion years to figure out you rotated the sun, I was wondering why my lighting looked off. Great technique. I've been trying to get an as nice looking texture with geometry nodes rather then the ocean, not there yet.

Subscribed. Cool stuff dude.

very neat and tidy

thank you. this thaught me something useful!

Genius. Thanks!

I love it!

Legendary 🔥🔥

And you can animate them! Nice job!

Mammatus clouds made easy! Thanks mate!

Fantastic!!!

this was super helpful thnk u!

pretty cool man that was unexpected tutorial

Nice tutorial, thanks

Not sure if values changed with 2.9x - I have to crank up the area light to like 200k + and density between 1-2 (not 20+ like vid). I have gotten similar results though. These are some spooky ass clouds, just what I was looking for ha.

Him: making many clouds in 2 minutes Me: creating a donut for 2 weeks

Great tutorial! I extruded the non-manifold, added the face and area light but when I remove the surface and add a principled volume to the the volume tab i lose the definition and only get mist. Using Blender 3.4

Brilliant!

Super...tried it and it worked really well :)

Amazing, subbed in the 1st 2 second

OMG SO CRAZY UNDERRATED!!!

You just did mammatus clouds! thanks for this GREAT tutorial :)

very good tutorial

thats actually cool

Probably the only time I've ever seen someone making mammatus clouds, Welp! I know what I'm doing for the next couple days!

To add new material go down to material property's (left hand side of panel right at the bottom is red)

Damn, very cool!

Thanks so much for sharing

need more tutorial like this

Lol I did exactly everything you did and it didn’t come out looking like yours.

am just curious how you thought of that

for anyone who was struggling to get the cloud shader right in 2.9, try to add a subdiv modifier and set the cloud shade smooth then apply all modifiers.

I'm using blender 2.83 too. However, I cant seem to get hold of selecting/extruding the edge the way you did in 0:28 (only the initial plane gets selected when I select 'non manifold'. Am I missing something? Edit: Issue solved. I was apparently supposed to 'apply' the ocean modifier too. Great tutorial btw :D

had to subscribe, too awesome

Dudue you are the best!!!