POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Snowy Thingy : Re: Snowy Thingy Server Time
12 Aug 2024 01:33:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Snowy Thingy  
From: Samuel Benge
Date: 4 Dec 2003 13:18:27
Message: <3FCF7A72.6040805@hotmail.com>
Hugo, your snow looks great. Like partially sublimated snow near a 
source of moist, tropical air. You know, that looks like a futuristic 
object under the snow.......

Hugo Asm wrote:

> Hi hi,
> 
> The object in the middle is a mesh2 modelled in Wings3D, covered with blobs
> so you almost can't see it. The ground is a height_field painted with
> PaintShopPro, and both are supposed to imitate snow... I know it doesn't
> really look like snow.
> 
> The light is from a gradient sky_sphere; I used Radiosity_OutdoorHQ
> settings. There are no textures.
> 
> Render time was circa 5 days uninterrupted with AMD 2.4 GHz.. This is my
> longest render ever and I'm not sure I understand why it took so long. I
> rendered the scene in 2 passes; first the radiosity was calculated (without
> the blobs actually) and it only took 1 hour. The second pass loaded the rad,
> added the blobs, and activated focal_blur with 40 samples.
> 
> Message to Shay:  I'd be interested in a demonstration of your mesh-snow!
> 
> Regards,
> Hugo
> 
> 
> 


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