POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : Leaving a Trail : Re: Leaving a Trail Server Time
19 May 2024 05:52:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Leaving a Trail  
From: OpalPlanet
Date: 19 Jun 2007 12:55:02
Message: <web.46780982ca61a70e39928d3a0@news.povray.org>
Rune, I was poking around your website and I found the particle system.
Could I just make each of the planets an "emitter" and leave a trail that
way?

-OpalPlanet

"Rune" <new### [at] runevisioncom> wrote:
> Roman Reiner wrote:
> > A merge or union of cylinders will most probably give better results
> > in less render time than both methods described above (all might be
> > worth a try though)
>
> Yes, agreed. I don't know why I forgot about that option.
>
> Merge can be very slow with a high number of objects though, so if a
> semi-transparent path is desired, sphere_sweeps may be faster after all,
> though I haven't compared results myself. If a semi-transparent path is not
> needed, union should definitely be used rather than merge.
>
> Rune
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> http://runevision.com


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