Hm. Sounds interesting, though a little limited due to
the external handling...
And referring to non-horizontal water-surfaces: have
you seen the animations I've put on my website? They
use non-horizontal surfaces. In fact, I could easily
rotate the surface about its axis, and the macros so
far would still properly interact with the surface. I hope
that I can get that to work with objects as well...

Perhaps I'll prepare an animation to show it off in a
few days...

Anyways, good luck with your system. With C++ it
would defnitely be faster than mine...

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Tim Nikias v2.0
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
Email: Tim### [at] gmxde

>
> >Also used sqrt(2), but hard-coded .707, that's sufficient
> >and faster than having the CPU calculate sqrt(2) all the
> >time.
>
> Yes it is, I set it as a constant so I can try different values.
>
> >
> >How do you read the pgm-file? I've got no experience
> >with reading other files than those I've scripted myself.
> >But using an image as a base, wouldn't that be a
> >bit complicated if you'd want to set you're water surface
> >different than on a horizontal plane? Also, if you have
> >surrounding objects to block the waves, it would be
> >difficult to match splashes with surrounding environment...
> >
> >BTW, how interactive is your system?
> >
> It's not interactive. I'm using this project to learn C++ so I shell out
to my
> programme to create a heightfield. I found that the parsing time in SDL
was too
> long. Your system looks much better. For this project I want to create
waves
> around a footstep of a walking figure so I want to have a large array/
> heightfield. I export a mesh from Poser and import it into POV. I'm
playing with
> BVH motion files, see my post in moray.binaries (called Spinkick
something). As
> for reading pgm files, they are text files so they are simple to read
using
> fileio. One thing to point out is POV does not read comment lines as per
the
> file specs. I don't know what you mean about setting the water surface
different
> than on a horizontal plane. In my world water is level :-)
> Blocking objects are not in scope but I have an idea or two using an
overlay. As
> they say on Mastermind I've started so I'll finish.
>
> Regards
>         Stephen

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