POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Snowy Thingy : Re: Snowy Thingy Server Time
12 Aug 2024 01:25:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Snowy Thingy  
From: Harold
Date: 4 Dec 2003 16:39:58
Message: <3fcfa9ae$1@news.povray.org>
Very nice,
To me it looks like recently fallen snow right after a brief
rain.

Harold

"Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
news:3fcef2b0@news.povray.org...
> 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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