Okay, I did some a bit more work on this.  I used motion blur on the
raindrops (looks better, however loses the raindroppy look of before).  A
few other minor tweaks, but I think I may be done with this one for now
(unless anyone has any life-changing ideas)

-tgq

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I like it.

One thing that looks off to me is that there is no sense of depth to the 
big raindrops.  If it is raining right through the scene then I'd expect 
  fewer large close drops and more of diminishing size in the mid and 
far background.

It looks like two populations of raindrops with nothing between them.

Having said that I have to applaud the water surface and the small beads 
of water on the sphere.

Lovely.

Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> Okay, I did some a bit more work on this.  I used motion blur on the
> raindrops (looks better, however loses the raindroppy look of before).  A
> few other minor tweaks, but I think I may be done with this one for now
> (unless anyone has any life-changing ideas)
> 
> -tgq
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

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Paul Fuller <pgf### [at] optusnetcomau> wrote:
> I like it.
>

Thanks for the comments.


> One thing that looks off to me is that there is no sense of depth to the
> big raindrops.  If it is raining right through the scene then I'd expect
>   fewer large close drops and more of diminishing size in the mid and
> far background.
>
> It looks like two populations of raindrops with nothing between them.

You may be a bit right on that.  The drops on the 'camera' are almost double
the size of the raindrops and the raindrops are cut-off little ways from the
location of the camera drops (camera at -201.5, drops -180, rain ~160).

>
> Having said that I have to applaud the water surface and the small beads
> of water on the sphere.
>

Thanks, the water took a little bit of work and inspiration to get the
raindrops (hint: crackle+form <1,0,0>+frequency).  The basic water surface
is f_ridged_mf as has been used before by others in the NG.

For the drops on the buoy itself, I had to come up with a nice method to
give me a good random spread over over any 3D surface.  Trace wasn't giving
me what I wanted, so if anyone is interested, I can post my method (it's
nothing too fancy)



-tgq

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:40:04 +1100, Paul Fuller
<pgf### [at] optusnetcomau> wrote:

I had assumed we were looking through a window at the scene

John

>I like it.
>
>One thing that looks off to me is that there is no sense of depth to the 
>big raindrops.  If it is raining right through the scene then I'd expect 
>  fewer large close drops and more of diminishing size in the mid and 
>far background.
>
>It looks like two populations of raindrops with nothing between them.
>
>Having said that I have to applaud the water surface and the small beads 
>of water on the sphere.
>
>Lovely.
>
>Trevor G Quayle wrote:
>> Okay, I did some a bit more work on this.  I used motion blur on the
>> raindrops (looks better, however loses the raindroppy look of before).  A
>> few other minor tweaks, but I think I may be done with this one for now
>> (unless anyone has any life-changing ideas)
>> 
>> -tgq
>> 
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>

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You are right.  I didn't 'read' it that way hence my comment about the 
big drops.

Still I'd like to see it the other way.

John wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:40:04 +1100, Paul Fuller
> <pgf### [at] optusnetcomau> wrote:
> 
> I had assumed we were looking through a window at the scene
> 
> John
> 
>> I like it.
>>
>> One thing that looks off to me is that there is no sense of depth to the 
>> big raindrops.  If it is raining right through the scene then I'd expect 
>>  fewer large close drops and more of diminishing size in the mid and 
>> far background.
>>
>> It looks like two populations of raindrops with nothing between them.
>>
>> Having said that I have to applaud the water surface and the small beads 
>> of water on the sphere.
>>
>> Lovely.
>>
>> Trevor G Quayle wrote:
>>> Okay, I did some a bit more work on this.  I used motion blur on the
>>> raindrops (looks better, however loses the raindroppy look of before).  A
>>> few other minor tweaks, but I think I may be done with this one for now
>>> (unless anyone has any life-changing ideas)
>>>
>>> -tgq
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>

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