I simply put up a frame for the portal and then built the scene which can be
seen through the portal right behind into the complete scene. I had to
calculate where to put the 'walls' of the 'portal room'. Well. Perhaps
simply look at my picture and if it is the thing you would like to do I
could try to explain how I made it more in detail

[URL]http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2004-08-31/coplattf.jpg[/URL]

Chris

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"Karima" <Ala### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> I simply put up a frame for the portal and then built the scene which can be
> seen through the portal right behind into the complete scene. I had to
> calculate where to put the 'walls' of the 'portal room'. Well. Perhaps
> simply look at my picture and if it is the thing you would like to do I
> could try to explain how I made it more in detail
>
> [URL]http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2004-08-31/coplattf.jpg[/URL]
>
> Chris


Oh well. This was my first try in posting in this newsgroup (actually my
first post ever in a newsgroup) and it didn't work as I expexted ;) Sorry
for that.

The first sentence was missing:

'I just worked on a portal like that for my IRTC entry in the desert round'

Chris

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"Karima" <Ala### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> "Karima" <Ala### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> > I simply put up a frame for the portal and then built the scene which can be
> > seen through the portal right behind into the complete scene. I had to
> > calculate where to put the 'walls' of the 'portal room'. Well. Perhaps
> > simply look at my picture and if it is the thing you would like to do I
> > could try to explain how I made it more in detail

Thanks Chris,

Do you mean that you made a smaller scene behind the doorway, arranged just
so that the edges are not protruding around the edges of the door?

I had considered doing something like this, but wasn't sure whether it was
worth fiddling with the positions like that. I am a pretty messy world
designer and I end up moving around a lot before I settle on a good
position to shoot from.

Your post has made me think maybe a variant on your suggestion might be the
way to go. As I'm wanting to use a sphere as the portal I might just make
the other scene inside the sphere, and just try to give the appearance of a
whole other world. The trick is going to be avoiding the
little-world-in-a-snowy-paperweight look.

Thanks, and best wishes,

- Miriam

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