On Sat, 15 May 2010 09:48:41 +0200, Jaime Vives Piqueres  
<jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

> Hi All:
>
>     Google image search is becoming my first source for unexpected
> inspiration... as usual, I was searching for something else, when found a
> nice aerial pic of the Amazon river.
>
>     Here are some details about this "quick hack":
>
>     + The base terrain is a heighfield, hand-painted over a googlemaps
> screen-shot.
>
>     + The river is just a plane, with a bump map also hand-painted in The
> Gimp, and a simple orange scattering media for the "muddy water" effect.
>
>     + There are 50,000 POVTrees, using only 4 different meshes. The tree
> sizes and distribution are half-guided by a pigment function.
>
>     + The huts were made with Wings3D in about a minute (well, maybe  
> two...)
> and the smoke column was borrowed from my office scene (the cigarette  
> smoke).
>
>     + Of course, skylight.inc was used for the lighting.
>
>     + render time was 40 min for the first pass, and just 20 for the  
> final one.
>
>     Regards,
>
>
Awesome!

How do you place trees with a pigment function? I would like to do the  
same with the grass in my alley scene, so the grass won't grow on the  
asphalt...

-Nekar Xenos-

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