Hello,

	I'm extremely new to using povray (on BeOS no less), and was messing about here and
there.  Now my experiments have led to something that seems kind of interesting but I
really could use a mountain range way off in the distance.  I'm curious as to what
would be the best way to accomplish this.  Would a height field be the trick, or
building one by hand (erg...)?  Any tips or anything that could be shot my way?

	Thanks in advance-

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Building a really good looking mountain range can actually be quite difficult, but
since you want your mountains way off in the distance, it should be significantly
easier.  I would recommend using a height field, or several height fields.  There are
some excellent programs to help you design a height field, check out Ken's excellent
links for a pretty extensive list.  I have heard that Leveller (
http://www.daylongraphics.com/ ) is especially good.  I have also had some success
using HLA, although it is a bit more difficult.  I would also suggest making your
mountains a bit obscured by haze (as is probably realistic) so you don't have to worry
as much about texturing them, as that can be a bit tricky.  However, texturing them
could also be very help you quite a bit in better learning Pov, so don't let me talk
you
out of it.

Jerry C wrote:

> Hello,
>
>         I'm extremely new to using povray (on BeOS no less), and was messing about
here and there.  Now my experiments have led to something that seems kind of
interesting but I really could use a mountain range way off in the distance.  I'm
curious as to what would be the best way to accomplish this.  Would a height field be
the trick, or building one by hand (erg...)?  Any tips or anything that could be shot
my way?
>
>         Thanks in advance-

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By the way, your post appears as long line (no line breaks) to me, and Netscape
appears to have formatted my reply to match (sorry about that), making both somewhat
more difficult to read than they need be.  It's not a big deal, just so you know.

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On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 18:52:25 -0700, in message
<386### [at] tapestrytucsonazus>, Kevin Wampler
<kev### [at] tapestrytucsonazus> wrote:

>By the way, your post appears as long line (no line breaks) to me...

  Same here, Kevin. I think Jerry can probably fix this by specifying a
reasonable line wrap at 70 to 76 characters per line.

-- 
Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> 
> Building a really good looking mountain range can actually be quite difficult,
> but since you want your mountains way off in the distance, it should be
> significantly easier.  I would recommend using a height field, or several
> height fields.  There are some excellent programs to help you design a height
> field, check out Ken's excellent links for a pretty extensive list.  I have
> heard that Leveller ( http://www.daylongraphics.com/ ) is especially good.
> I have also had some success using HLA, although it is a bit more difficult.
> I would also suggest making your mountains a bit obscured by haze (as is
> probably realistic) so you don't have to worry as much about texturing them,
> as that can be a bit tricky.  However, texturing them could also be very help
> you quite a bit in better learning Pov, so don't let me talk you out of it.

Here is my complete list of HF utilities -
http://www.povray.org/links/3D_Programs/Height_Field_Modelling_Programs_and_Utilities/

While I too strongly recommend Leveller as the HF modeller of choice is is
also a Windows app and not likely to run on BeoS. Jerry migh want to head
over to John Beales HF utilities pages and see what he can find. I am pretty
sure the he has both PC and UNIX variants available that might be usable on
that platform with a little work.

Making HF's with a grayscale fractal pattern is not the difficult either
and produces some interesting results. Many people like to use Fracint for
this purpose which is available on all platforms.

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Wishing you Seasons Greetings and A Happy New Millennium !
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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Jerry,

some users have reported problems with your post. I believe it is in
the encoding which is set to 8-bit. I'd recommend you switched to
7-bit text/plain encoding so as to make the life of those users
easier.

As of your quest, I think the others have headed you in the right
direction. Try the links section on povray.org for links to more HF
related utils if you haven't already done so.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
ICQ: 15002700

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After reading your post last night I thought about this for quite
a while, and may do some experiments with a Y gradiant pigment on
an X plane.  This has probably been tryed before, but I'm going
to give it a go soem time soon.

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Hello Kevin,
The funny thing is that your post also appears as one long line here in
Outlook Express 5! What about my post? I'll just add some gibberish so you
can judge its length....

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Regards,
Sander


Kevin Wampler <kev### [at] tapestrytucsonazus> schreef in berichtnieuws
386### [at] tapestrytucsonazus...
> By the way, your post appears as long line (no line breaks) to me, and
Netscape appears to have formatted my reply to match (sorry about that),
making both somewhat more difficult to read than they need be.  It's not a
big deal, just so you know.
>

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Ken wrote:
> 
> While I too strongly recommend Leveller as the HF modeller of choice is is
> also a Windows app and not likely to run on BeoS. Jerry migh want to head
> over to John Beales HF utilities pages and see what he can find. I am pretty
> sure the he has both PC and UNIX variants available that might be usable on
> that platform with a little work.

If no tools designed as HF modelers exist, paint programs work in a
pinch, and POV-Ray works surprisingly well.  OK, maybe not surprisingly.
;-)

-Mark Gordon

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Sander wrote:

> Hello Kevin,
> The funny thing is that your post also appears as one long line here in
> Outlook Express 5! What about my post? I'll just add some gibberish so you
> can judge its length....

Nope, your post looks just fine.  I guess I'll just have to fiddle around
with Netscape and find a way to have it give line breaks every so often
regardless of the post I was replying to.

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