POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Catenary Bridge (WIP) : Re: Catenary Bridge (WIP) Server Time
3 May 2024 19:12:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Catenary Bridge (WIP)  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 5 Jun 2016 02:40:03
Message: <5753c943$1@news.povray.org>
On 5-6-2016 4:51, Bald Eagle wrote:
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
>> Cool. I've always enjoyed views of such bridges. The New Rivers Gorge
>> bridge as an example.
>>
>> Bill P.
>
> Thanks  :)
> I actually managed to grab the geo data from USGS, convert it into a png, and
> then a heightfield, and once I got it all scaled and un-lost myself in the
> aerial view, I managed to get things reasonably aligned.
>
> Still needs some scaling and repositioning, and then it's mostly a matter of
> working on the textures, seeing what I can do with plants again :O  and all of
> that skilled stuff that takes forever.   :D
>

Good work!

Maybe the USGS data are a bit too /global/ for this scale? A bit of 
extra roughness added to the png should do the trick.

-- 
Thomas


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