Warp wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
>> 800 X 600, about 16 seconds long.  Compressed using the Xvid open-source codec.
>> (It had to be rather heavily compressed to fit here; sorry.)
> 
>   That's one of the best POV-Ray animations I have ever seen.

Aside from the hard work that went into the plane model (and its 
texturing and the flame effects), some methods that aren't at all hard 
helped things out.

* First, he shook the camera a bit.  Part of the reason that a lot of 
the animation work seen on this server is not all that interesting is 
because the camera work makes it bland.  A bit of randomness in the 
camera really ups the level of realism.

* Second, any problems with the detail in the ground are solved by the 
clouds, which make it hard to get a good look at the ground. 
Admittedly, a real task force flying a combat mission would be flying 
under the clouds (if over friendly territory) or over them (if over 
enemy territory), and not flying *in* them...

It's an excellent piece of work.

Regards,
John

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