POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Re: Cloud Surface : Re: Cloud Surface Server Time
15 May 2024 13:25:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cloud Surface  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 25 Nov 2017 03:32:36
Message: <5a192aa4$1@news.povray.org>
On 25-11-2017 0:51, clipka wrote:
> Am 25.11.2017 um 00:36 schrieb Sven Littkowski:
> 
>> I am quite happy with the shape of the clouds, but there are some things
>> where I don't know how to change:
>> - that the tower disappears slowly below cloud surface (now it is white)
> 
> Make sure to use scattering media with an extinction value of 1.0.
> 
> Also, do use the newest version of POV-Ray, and do use the default media
> sampling method (2 I think). Media has seen several fixes of the
> underlying math, some of which could not be applied to the older
> sampling methods.
> 

On the contrary and not to confuse the issue: use the version 3.7 
defaults which are method 3 intervals 1. Samples can be adapted as 
needed without serious render time loss.

-- 
Thomas


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