On 15 Aug 2000 18:29:37 -0400, "H. E. Day" <Pov### [at] aolcom> wrote:

>Here's the pretty-much-final version of the main character of my next IRTC
>Anim.  I used some pretty advanced rendering techniques to get this result.

Why am I not surprised?

> For instance, no lights were used to save time.  That's right. No lights. 
>Instead, I used a slope texture *over* the original texture.  

With 'up' pointing to the camera, I guess. Now that's ingenious.

>This allowed me to smooth the lines between cells.  It also decreased the 
>render time from 3 minutes to 2.  Also, I eliminated Anti-Aliasing, cutting 
>the R-T in half again.  All in all, not a bad job, eh?

No, not at all. Actually a stunning one. But then you already knew
that.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
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