"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:

>
> I don't think I've ever tried posting a video here before but I'm attaching a
> short MP4 clip of the animated engine media, hopefully it works.

Your final ship is really gorgeous, and the animation of the engine 'ion
exhaust' looks great! It's a nice and sophisticated use of media. Btw, thanks
for the description of your ship's surface texture; I had originally thought
that you had used one of POV-ray's newer 'pavement' patterns (perhaps that is
part of the mix), but your averaging(?) of simple box and rectangle
shapes/images makes perfect sense. I look forward to experimenting with that
technique.

Your work has really paid off! It's inspiring.

[As is usual with videos uploaded here-- at least through the newsgroups' web
portal-- the downloaded animation doesn't play in Windows Media Player, even
though it should. So I've learned to use a different media player app to play
it. I don't think the problem is with the added  .mp4  suffix here, whether left
as-is or removed; it seems that the upload/download process adds 'something' to
the file, or makes it different somehow. On my own Win 7 computer, I can play my
own animations in WMP; but when I upload them here, then download them, they
don't play. Weird.]

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