"Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" wrote:
>
> > http://www.pp.htv.fi/kkivisal/brick.htm
> 
> It is indeed.  Love the tree, btw -- did it take forever to render with
> that invisible tree in there?

It would take if I render with area_light and 3D tree model. To make it
faster I use a blank png with a tree silhouette in alpha channel mapped
to a pair of triangles. For soft shadows I blurred the alpha chanel in
Photoshop, much faster and better results than with area_light. It took
about 5 minutes on 1GHz Athlon.

http://www.pp.htv.fi/kkivisal/tree_alpha.jpg

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Kari Kivisalo

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