Making my "Cumulus" Cloud System Production-Ready

The world is absolutely SATURATED right now with flashy, but ultimately tech-debt-riddled, proofs of concept. Good workflows do more. They string all the way through the pipeline cleanly. They are performant. Directable. They work with existing systems without calling themselves out for special attention.

That's the pass I'm doing here. Make it so that anyone, regardless of skill, can open up a level and get results like this, drama-free. Make it so that it looks great day one, and doesn't cost you later.

As a bonus, everything now works natively with UE's lumen sky and atmosphere systems. I'm leveraging a 25 year old technique called precomputed radiance transfer to emulate the soft, raytraced transmission in realtime. Snazzy.

See video for more details.