> | Hi there,  I'm new to the pov-ray newsgroups... but you seem like a
friendly
> enough crowd.
>
> Hi Ian.  Friendly? Yes.  That is, until HTML is used to post messages...

yeah sorry... already been told off for that one!  :-)
>
> | With this in mind I have decided to offer this here picture for
criticism.
> Don't hold back, tell me how to |make it the best pot plant ever... I was
> going for something like a Cantonese Lace. I used SplineTree |and some
scanned
> leaves for the plant, h.f. for the dirt, and csg for the pot.
>
> I don't know much about plants, this one looks good far as branching and
leaf
> placement goes, just a bit thinned-out looking.  The detail to the leaves
is
> nice, even though not very visible here.  You could vary them slightly
with a
> 'turbulence' added in: pigment {image_map{} turbulence 0.05} for close ups
or
> larger renders.

That's a great idea, but I've also used the same leaf images for
bump_map's... if I add the same amount of turbulence to the image_map and
bump_map will they still line up?


> |The area light shadow of the foliage looks even grainier on a less
compressed
> image.. how can I fix |this? (make nice soft shadows)
>
> It may be that the area light is near and wide

It was, and I've fixed it now, thanks.

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