ChrisB,

Oh, I more than welcome input.  I had thought the thread had gone stale and I


much and just set the two parameters in the pov file.  I have them churning on
several machines and just combine the images (after running the rename.bat
file) and they fall into place as pretty as you please.  I think having the
file names reflecting the actual second-subsecond frame makes it near bullet
proof.


have stopped the hi-res until I correct it.  The ocean comes from Gilles Tran
and he references Marc Jacquier and Christoph Horman for the water aspect.
Basically, he uses a height_field to create a square and then he creates the
SeaSurface based on many of these height_fields properly mirrored to each other
so the transitions line up.  For a video to make the wave action I move this
whole field by my wave velocity and the time.  I move it for one wave length
and then back it up.  The major wave is correctly being moved back, but all the


ocean.  It looks good, but unfortunately, the generation for a 720p goes from

solution brewing.


1920x1200 stills show that to advantage.  However, there have been some racing




debate that one.


off the helicopter onto the pier and froze at the base of the pier. Yeah, I need
to give a little better acceleration/decelerations at those points.

Sun to moon light transition.  Yeah, a little hokey.  Did you catch the sun

cinematography excellence, and I like the transition while moving.  The

most people have with this image is the vigorous sailing into a lone tropical
island and relaxing by the moon light.


it looks like the surface is crawling.  I use a random number generator to
generate the rings in the boards (can see the boards in the hi-res still on the




spray (splashing)?




to see 15 frames a second.  Before I was usually going from 1 every ten seconds






 Alain,
            Yes, the parallel masts are the more common case (obviously after

study on a boat design forum and have prompted them to see if anyone has




continue, I plan on going through the entire design and building process on the
thread.

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/z40-roadster-its-sailboat-not-car-28624.html

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"Inquisitor" <dec### [at] sybasecom> wrote in message 
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>
> Reflective - funny you mention that.  Actually it is pretty reflective and 
> the
> 1920x1200 stills show that to advantage.  However, there have been some 
> racing
> yachts lately using a chrome Mylar film (mirror) on the hulls and I'm
> experimenting with that.

Hmmm. I'm not sure that adding stealth to the hull of a private yacht is 
necessarily a very wise 'improvement'. I think flourescent Green with bright 
Orange stripes might give you a higher survival rating on the open ocean 
:-)


> Sun to moon light transition.  Yeah, a little hokey.  Did you catch the 
> sun
> switch off at 3:19. kind of abrupt.

No I hadn't noticed till you pointed it out. The camera is very close into 
the yacht at that point in time and there are lots of artificial lights 
around, so my brain just accepted that a light shining on the roof suddenly 
went out.


> Wood grain - I have a problem with the wood grain.  At 2:50 looking at the 
> pier,
> it looks like the surface is crawling.

I think this is down to having very fine, but well defined lines (a big 
color difference) viewed from a changing camera position. There is a name 
for this, but I can't for the life of me think of it. If this is the reason 
there are some things you can do with anti-aliasing and jitter to reduce 
such effects, but these have quite detrimental render-time overheads. 
Alternatively, at this resolution you can't really see the wood-grain effect 
anyway, so you might consider using a far simpler pattern for the animated 
renders.


> Wake and Spray - Fortunately, my boat design is soooo good that it doesn't 
> even
> leave a wake.. NOT.  Have you seen any good topics on generating a wake or
> spray (splashing)?

Eriban posted a thread entitled 'Rock The Boat (Final)' on 10th July this 
year on povray.binaries.images. The Wake is discussed in that thread and 
there's a reference to the source in povray.binaries.scene-files. I didn't 
try it myself, so I don't know how well it would animate and I don't know 
how easy it might be to combine with your heightfield techniques.

Regards,
Chris B.

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Wanted to pass along one of the reasons for this high horsepower computer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPeldE2RExs

Remember to press the HD button and let it start reloading, then press the full
screen.

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