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29 Jul 2024 10:19:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Footprints in sand  
From: Alain
Date: 20 Mar 2006 18:35:55
Message: <441f3c5b$1@news.povray.org>
KesAFloyd nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 19/03/2006 23:24:
> Hi, I'm trying to make footprints in sand. I created a height map in
> Photoshop and have the general depressed foot shape, but I'd like to
> somehow insert it into a plane to depress the plane. I don't want to just
> create a huge height map with multiple footprints because I want the
> freedom of rearranging them as I work. I also don't want to create a block
> of foot, insert it into a block of ground, and take a difference because
> that would create very rigid, unnatural looking footprints, especially
> because sand slides into holes very easily. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
You can use a difference of your surface and the height_field. Make sure that the top
of the 
height_filed is always above your surface.

-- 
Alain
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