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Jaime Vives Piqueres 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.
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> + 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.
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> + 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,
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
What fun! Keep it simple.
I take it the shadows are from clouds? Nice touch.
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You're making me wonder if Avatar is such an achievement after all.
Regards,
John
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Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignorancia org> wrote:
> Here are some details about this "quick hack":
For being a "quick hack", this render is very nicely done! A little more color
variation could help the trees, and the smoke looks a little off, possibly
because it was designed for a smaller-scale scene. For the most part, though, it
looks good!
It must be nice to have inspiration :(
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"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> schreef in bericht
news:4bee520e@news.povray.org...
> Here are some details about this "quick hack":
>
"Quick hack"... you are joking Jaime! Such a scene would take me a couple of
days at least.
Excellent, as always. Very photographic.
Please, keep us in wonder.
Thomas
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> That's marvelous.
Thanks!
> Please give us some views from within the forest!
I'm sorry but a shot inside the forest will reveal there is nothing under
the trees, apart from a pixelated soil texture... it was intended as a sort
of "aerial impressionism". :)
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
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> What fun! Keep it simple.
Thanks!
> I take it the shadows are from clouds? Nice touch.
Yes, I forgot to mention the clouds: it is just a plane with a turbulent
leopard pattern, to cast some shadows.
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
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> You're making me wonder if Avatar is such an achievement after all.
I don't know: I haven't watched that film, and I've not read anything
about it... all I know is that it features CG people with blue skin! But
thanks for the comparison: must mean it looked convincing enough... :)
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Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
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> For being a "quick hack", this render is very nicely done!
It's just one of these rare cases where everything was right almost at
first try.
> A little more color variation could help the trees,
I tried it at first, but then I didn't like it, and made the variation
more subtle, perhaps too much.
> and the smoke looks a little off, possibly because it was designed for a
> smaller-scale scene.
Yes, and also because the shape is too simple.
> For the most part, though, it looks good!
Thanks!
> It must be nice to have inspiration :(
It's a shame that nonexistent things can't be shared... :)
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Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
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> "Quick hack"... you are joking Jaime! Such a scene would take me a couple
> of days at least.
Well, at least by my POV-Ray standards, a couple of days IS a quick hack!
> Excellent, as always. Very photographic.
Thanks!
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Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
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spot-on! Even the muddy waters:
http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/amazon-river.jpg
Would it be too hard to introduce some variance to the density of distribution
and color of the trees? Also, some are larger than others...
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