Closing in on 4 months since I last posted anything. Anyone ever notice that
they come back from a long "povray break" to find themselves better, or at
least with fresh ideas and a renewed interest? Anyway I recently dug up a
project I started a long time ago, modelling my garage, and have been
working on it these past couple of days. Object wise this is by far the
densest image I've done, also the reason I quit the project a while back.
There are still a few things I'd like to add but its getting very close to
being finished, besides there are other things I'd like to play with :-)
There are 1700 some odd objects here, all modeled in Moray or Rhino, by
objects I mean primitives. Took 5Hrs 44Mins to render on Pov 3.5 Beta 9. I
played around with various radiosity settings, I could not decide between
recursion 3 and recursion 1, I settled on 1 because 3 looked a little too
washed out but it had more of a nice warm feeling.

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it looks really good..
maybe your garage is just cleaner than mine.. but it seems way too clean.. i
dunno..
no dust... no dirt..
everything is just too smooth

-darrell

"Thomas Lake" <tla### [at] homecom> wrote in message
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> Closing in on 4 months since I last posted anything. Anyone ever notice
that
> they come back from a long "povray break" to find themselves better, or at
> least with fresh ideas and a renewed interest? Anyway I recently dug up a
> project I started a long time ago, modelling my garage, and have been
> working on it these past couple of days. Object wise this is by far the
> densest image I've done, also the reason I quit the project a while back.
> There are still a few things I'd like to add but its getting very close to
> being finished, besides there are other things I'd like to play with :-)
> There are 1700 some odd objects here, all modeled in Moray or Rhino, by
> objects I mean primitives. Took 5Hrs 44Mins to render on Pov 3.5 Beta 9. I
> played around with various radiosity settings, I could not decide between
> recursion 3 and recursion 1, I settled on 1 because 3 looked a little too
> washed out but it had more of a nice warm feeling.
>
>
>

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"Darrell Miller" <dar### [at] tallskinnyboycom> wrote in message
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> it looks really good..
> maybe your garage is just cleaner than mine.. but it seems way too clean..
i
> dunno..
> no dust... no dirt..
> everything is just too smooth

Hehe a bit ironic you should mention that my garage may be cleaner than
yours, actually my real garage has about 10 times as much stuff as I have in
this picture, but I don't have that kind of time or memory:-) However I am
going to add some more stuff. "Dust" is often something people site is
missing in raytraced images but something that is extremely hard to
simulate. I've sometimes found that using a small normal of any type on
objects can make them seem a bit rougher, sort of like they are covered in
dust, but not really.

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Wow... =]

Thomas Lake wrote:

> Closing in on 4 months since I last posted anything. Anyone ever notice that
> they come back from a long "povray break" to find themselves better, or at
> least with fresh ideas and a renewed interest? Anyway I recently dug up a
> project I started a long time ago, modelling my garage, and have been
> working on it these past couple of days. Object wise this is by far the
> densest image I've done, also the reason I quit the project a while back.
> There are still a few things I'd like to add but its getting very close to
> being finished, besides there are other things I'd like to play with :-)
> There are 1700 some odd objects here, all modeled in Moray or Rhino, by
> objects I mean primitives. Took 5Hrs 44Mins to render on Pov 3.5 Beta 9. I
> played around with various radiosity settings, I could not decide between
> recursion 3 and recursion 1, I settled on 1 because 3 looked a little too
> washed out but it had more of a nice warm feeling.
>
>  [Image]

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Oooh, looks like a great candidate for radiosity.

- Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
[ http://www.slimeland.com/images/ ]

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"Ryan Mooney" <rdm### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> Wow... =]

Thanks:-)

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"Slime" <noo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Oooh, looks like a great candidate for radiosity.
>
> - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/images/ ]

Oops looks like I clicked "reply" when I should have clicked "reply group"
again, MS really could have done a better job with that. I used radiosity.
That's why I was saying that I was trying to decide
between recursion limit 1 and 3. Perhaps I'll try rendering it at 2 and 3
again and see.

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:05:05 -0800, "Thomas Lake" <tla### [at] homecom>
wrote:

>Oops looks like I clicked "reply" when I should have clicked "reply group"
>again, MS really could have done a better job with that. I used radiosity.
>That's why I was saying that I was trying to decide
>between recursion limit 1 and 3. Perhaps I'll try rendering it at 2 and 3
>again and see.

I usually use 4 but for such a tightly populated scene even 6 might
give a difference.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
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Thomas Lake wrote:

> Closing in on 4 months since I last posted anything. Anyone ever notice
> that they come back from a long "povray break" to find themselves better,
> or at least with fresh ideas and a renewed interest? 

  This happens to me after some minutes without tracing!

> densest image I've done, also the reason I quit the project a while back.

  Worth the break! As you said, the problem with such scenes is populating 
them (like my office one).

> played around with various radiosity settings, I could not decide between
> recursion 3 and recursion 1, I settled on 1 because 3 looked a little too
> washed out but it had more of a nice warm feeling.

 Then use recursion 2!!! ;)

-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org

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That's some work you've done there with all those objects.  

Is the floor really that flat?

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