Awesome!
The underwater is superb, looks like a photo: is the effect of the funky
lens?
Curious to see the final work!
;-)
Paolo

> "Tek" wrote
>
> It's been a while since my last post, I was waiting until I got a render
> with no errors in it, but that doesn't look likely any time soon. So here
we
> have the current stage of development.
>
> Some big changes:
> -A totally different volcano shape, with a much more violent feel to it. I
> like it but think maybe I went too far...
> -The flying lava doesn't travel so far now, based on reference photos,
> though in this shot it's become too subtle so I'll crank it up some more.
> -Lava rivers turned off -temporarily-! I was "improving" the algorithm, so
> currently it's totally broken.
> -Heat haze underwater, looks a bit strange so I might get rid of it. But
> maybe when I put bubbles of steam in there it might all come together.
> -Mountains! Finally the white cones in the background look like something
> real
>
> And finally, the biggest change: All kindsa funky Megapov post-processing
> lens filters! Now before anyone criticises me for doing post processing
> please compare it to my IRTC winning entry from a couple of rounds ago,
> where I did a bunch of very similar effects the super-slow standard-pov
way.
> At least doing them the megapov way just adds a short bit of time to the
> render, rather than making it 20 times slower!
>
> Also, my suite of funky lens effects takes the form of a nicely
> parameterized include file which I will be distributing with the source to
> this image when I submit it to the IRTC. Ain't I nice?
>
> Still to do:
> -The aforementioned resurrection of the lava rivers
> -fix that eliptical bug round the top of the volcano (anyone know why
> overlapping media-containers don't play nice together?)
> -steam wherever lava touches water/snow
> -...and something else... the left side of the image looks too calm, any
> suggestions?
>
> And that's about it. What do you think?
>
> -- 
> Tek
> http://evilsuperbrain.com
>
>
>

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