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That's really nice.
I think you should also make different photos for the 1st floor of the
buildings. At least to give them an entrance.
Do you plan to add people, vehicles and traffic signs in the street ? It looks
like an endless project ! :-)
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> With a little bit of fog thrown in-- smog, or city pollution.
>
> Currently, I'm using 16 different window photo-facades, randomly placed on 450
> buildings--each with reflective windows, by way of 'hold-out' mattes and using
> POV-ray's image_pattern feature. (Increasing the number of buildings is trivial;
> but I need to use more photos, as there is already too much window repetition.)
> But I usually make a new photo tile every night!
>
> I've managed to fix four items on my to-do list:
>
> * making sure the windows go all the way to the edges and tops, without being
> randomly chopped off. (I also reworked the window photo images to be more
> accurate 'tiles'-- a learning experience.) The building widths and heights are
> now based on small strict subdivisions of the (larger) tiles-- while still using
> the FULL tile textures on the building. That was a happy accident ;-)
>
> * matching the colors of the 'concrete' edges and tops of the buildings to the
> average color of the photo facades; looks better than plain gray. The architects
> were being creative ;-)
>
> * putting the buildings in a street-grid layout (more or less), so that they no
> longer overlap (well, I haven't *seen* any overlaps yet.) This needs more work--
> as well as to make the streets go in two 90-degree directions, instead of just
> one.
>
> * adding a bit of dirt and aging to the building faces. (The 'dirt' is just an
> overlay of several distorted bumps pigments.) Currently, this is also applied
> over the window areas as well, which I want to eliminate.
>
> Three things I haven't done yet: cleaning up my code(!); trying out POV-Ray's
> new(?) CUBIC pattern for texturing the buildings; and re-working my code to use
> heightfields for the building faces, instead of plain boxes. I hope I can do
> --that-- without a major re-write!
>
> Comments and criticisms welcome.
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