Thomas Willhalm wrote in message ...
>"CoolColJ" <ccj### [at] idxcomau> writes:
>>
>> I need a 12 frame Povray Smoke Animation, that loops fairly smoothly
given
>> the 12 frame animation limit. Its for a mod I'm doing for a game called
>> Combat Mission, for the burning tanks.
>>
>> The animation needs to be a side profile and vertical rising, and look
black
>> and oliy like that Pearl Harbour shot on the Povray main page.
>
>Why not try to animate the smoke of this image? The source code is
>available at http://www.irtc.org/stills/1998-12-31.html


This might be practical if he has access to a high-end Cray.  That smoke
takes about 12 hours to render on a 400Mhz AMD K6-2.  It takes even longer
when using media method 3 (I stopped the render after five minutes on a
single pixel).

Mark

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