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Alain Martel <kua### [at] videotron ca> wrote:
> > 6 plants made from smooth triangle billboards. These render much faster than the
> > clipped sphere approach I was originally using. Scene file posted.
> > Miller
> >
> Those are nice. Make them into mesh to use the instanciation feature of
> the meshes.
> So, instead of :
> #declare ST_leaf =
> union {
> //--left 1/2
> smooth_triangle { p11, n1, p4, n1, p6, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p11, n1, p10, n1, p4, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n1, p10, n1, p11, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n1, p8, n1, p10, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n1, p8, n1, p9, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n1, p14, n1, p8, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p2, n1, p15, n1, p5, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p2, n1, p14, n1, p15, n1 }
> //--right 1/2
> smooth_triangle { p11, n5, p3, n5, p12, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p11, n5, p6, n5, p3, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n5, p12, n5, p7, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n5, p11, n5, p12, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n5, p7, n5, p13, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n5, p9, n5, p7, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p1, n5, p15, n5, p13, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p1, n5, p5, n5, p15, n5 }
> }
>
> Use this :
> #declare ST_leaf =
> mesh{
> //--left 1/2
> smooth_triangle { p11, n1, p4, n1, p6, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p11, n1, p10, n1, p4, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n1, p10, n1, p11, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n1, p8, n1, p10, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n1, p8, n1, p9, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n1, p14, n1, p8, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p2, n1, p15, n1, p5, n1 }
> smooth_triangle { p2, n1, p14, n1, p15, n1 }
> //--right 1/2
> smooth_triangle { p11, n5, p3, n5, p12, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p11, n5, p6, n5, p3, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n5, p12, n5, p7, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p9, n5, p11, n5, p12, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n5, p7, n5, p13, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p15, n5, p9, n5, p7, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p1, n5, p15, n5, p13, n5 }
> smooth_triangle { p1, n5, p5, n5, p15, n5 }
> }
>
> That way, you can place 1000's of copies of the same plant that'll use
> only the storage for a single one.
Alain,
thank you so much! I will definitely fix that. It's been a long time since I
worked with triangles in POV...
I have a new problem ..haha. Now that I've converted these billboards to smooth
triangles, I'm getting a new fog bug showing up in reflections. I'm posting a
snippet of a rendering I did last night using these plants in my nest scene.
Billboards that cross in front the water renders without fog. Strange...may just
give up on using them in this scene. :-)
Mike
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