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19 Jul 2024 04:15:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Need advice on how to achieve this effect  
From: James Bulgin
Date: 5 Apr 2004 18:11:19
Message: <4071d987$1@news.povray.org>
Umm..... I'm afraid I don't have a clue what you're saying. And note, for
the record, that it's not suppose to actually BE fire, just a red energy
which behaves generally like fire.

> i just went to the source, saved, copied and modified a .par file,
> waited and used ppmtompeg on file ppm's, then mplayer
>
> had a play with frame based stuttering to try and add a startup
> jitter/judder in the flame length as the engine tries to go to
> afterburner, sem to remember a shade of orange in the flame though,
> almost road my bike into the kerb at seeing at two aircraft taking off
> fully loaded with store's illuminated by their twin engines on
> afterburner against a black october sky aka pitch black, my pushbike's
> halogen headlight sorta vanished in the rain haze, 1500 yrds
>
> but i don't know how to add an orange tone to the back edge, say 3/4 to
> 7/8's to the end from th nozzle, first guess trying to add judder did
> something strange when trying to add judder, i scaled around the final
> object, then i moved it into the union above and it started juddering in
> the mpeg, can i generate a mpg 'increment by N frames and adjust clock'
> sort of mode, seen it somwhere recntly, a N elongated frame mpg, with
> fewer frames, each displayed longer?
>
> OS - debian unstable, occasionly running beta3, else povray official
> on debian unstable or mdk9.1
>
> stephen


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