"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
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> "Ruy" <ruy### [at] hipernetcombr> wrote in message
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> > Although I have been poving this (in an off-and-off-and-off-and-on
> > manner...) since v2.2, I am obviously not skilled enough to get
> > photo-quality scenes rendered. Not that I would like to. Getting the
> perfect
> > kitchen rendered is not one if my goals, but having a perfectly believable
> > non-exixting object sitting on top of a table or, better yet, a tiled
> floor
> > is what I want. So I guess I do shoot for realism. One day I'll get it,
> I'm
> > sure.
>
>     Well, I wasn't talking about photo-realism. For instance, I have a
> continuing project of modeling a microscope. There are some internal gears
> that I had to dismantle the microscope to find. But I found them and modeled
> them even though it will take a cutaway view to ever see them. Probably
> slows down the rendering a lot and certainly slowed down the project.
>
>     But I can't see modeling something and leaving out the working parts.
> Probably a psychosis of some sort.
>

I was thinking of modelling the engine of my car as well, but considering the
render speed at the moment, I've been thinking of a height-field from a
photograph of an engine - very bad...

But I definitely still want to do the interior. I guess I want to make it seem
as real as possible and I get to know Pov better in the process.

- Nekar






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