This will be for "The Mother Hive" due later this year (on the animation 
side).

There was a reason I was working on the cliff face.

The rocks and the sand are done with a macro I've developed (and 
recently idiot-proofed) that allows me to turn any rectangular region of 
the y=0 slice of a pigment into a height field.  Putting a bunch of them 
together creates a landscape that can be arbitrarily extended in any 
direction.  More macro code allows only the height fields that are 
on-camera to be parsed into the scene, and another one enables splitting 
height_fields that extend below the viewpoint (otherwise there was a 
level-of-detail situation that crashed POV-Ray).

I originally wanted to have the cave be much more natural-looking on the 
outside, but I the SDL Muse did not bless me with a way to do it, so I 
modeled the entrance this way to save time.

Regards,
John

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The steps looks kind of like they were built with trace() to follow the
ground. Are they?

Just curious. :-)

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William Tracy wrote:
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> The steps looks kind of like they were built with trace() to follow the
> ground. Are they?

No, I positioned them by hand.  The steps vary in discrete amounts.  I 
put the model of the critter that is supposed to be using the steps, and 
found that it wasn't going to work, and so I turned the thing into a 
series of ramps that follow the ground.

Regards,
John

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Cool. I look forward to seeing your finished animation, as always. :-)

(We love Rusty!)

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"William Tracy" <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> schreef in bericht 
news:471d55bd$1@news.povray.org...
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> (We love Rusty!)
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Rusty! Rusty! Rusty!!
(waving banner and jumping up and down)

Thomas

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