Finally figured out Cloud Material Density Sampling by a compute shader directly. You have no idea how many hours I've put into this... 😂 But the benefits are crazy - you can fast async sample clouds for lightnings placement or for the general gameplay purposes.

And this is how simple the example blueprint looks shown on the video. Big kudos to @SebHillaire and for some useful insights and code snippets!

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That is pretty nice, good job

Enabling/disabling "fly through" post process (water on screen, etc), lightning placement, distant rain card placement through Niagara data channels, adjusting exposure of under clouds... So many possibilities 🤩

Looks awesome! And, lightning, you say??

Yeah, with this approach you can arbitrarily sample locations to get a "valid" cloud density to do some things. Simple and fast!