David Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:25:12 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Ah ! The R2D2 height field. That was when I was first experimenting with
> >non-standard uses of the HF object. I have progressed considerably with
> >that concept since then.
> 
> I give up Ken, it's keeping me awake during the day. Please reveal all!
> David

Ok, I have taken my clothes off. Now what ?


The R2D2 height field was created using a little chicanery. I had a mesh
object of R2D2 that I downloaded somewhere and was looking at it in a
modelling program. I got a sudden inspiration looking at it's wire frame
to do a screen capture of the wire frame image and made a HF object out
of it. It pretty simple really. I made sure that the background was
black and the lines were white. The resulting image was then used for
the HF object and I used the water level modifier to clip the back off
of the object. The rest was scaling and rotating into position.

Cheers,

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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