very cool. This waould make a good animation with the death ray coming
down and the explosion engulfing the whole city. If you check out the
"First Strike at Pearl Harbor" web site (I forget the url right now, but
it is on the POV site and the IRTC site), I think they tell us how they
made the thick black smoke in their scene. Just a thought.

very nice scene....


-paul

Peter Houston wrote:
> 
> Using v.05 of HE Days Real Explosion, I converted it to a macro, as this
> scene uses about 4 altogether.  This version is a definite improvement, it
> even renders faster :) this image took about 2/3 the time of the last one.
> 
> I would still like to put some black smoke clouds in the background, I
> thought of using media in a column of hollow spheres or a blob, but I
> haven't had much experience with media and even less with MegaPOV media,  I
> would really appreciate the help.
> 
> Or if anyone knows how to do it with textures or isosurfaces (I wish I
> understood them).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter H.
> 
>  [Image]

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