Well, not to be a smarta$$, but yes.
It is called Fluids, sorry.

For you, try these:

https://cade.scope.edu/courseware/notes/phenomena/

https://www.rustboy.com , he goes over his technique on how he created his puffy clouds in 2D, using a technique employed by us compositors called: "MultiPlaning".

He needed to be able to fly through the clouds as well as a SUPER fast render time, so that's what he did

Check it out, he's even got an animation to look at as well

If you wanna see the animation, click here:
https://www.rustboy.tv/movies/cloudlayers.htm


Also:

I don't know if this will help you, but you could try to take a look at these tutorials... as far as I could see you don't need any plugins to make them...

"Fly over a mountain" and "Thick clouds ahead" from this site... -->
https://cade.scope.edu/courseware/notes/phenomena/

and also this one... "Creating Clouds in Maya using Particle Clouds"... -->
https://www.3dtreat.com/pages/tutori...Page/index.html

regards

Strarup


Also a Vortex field study:

https://www.forum.simplymaya.com/show...ghlight=clouds


BTW, all of these tips/links were found doing a search here at SM