"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
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> "Michael Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> They do add a lot more visual interest than my scene had.
>
> By a strange coincidence I'd also been thinking about doing a sunrise with
> clouds. Someone mentioned Gilles Trans' makeclouds on these groups
recently, and
> that started me looking into that again. I'm currently rendering
wallpaper-sized
> versions of the beautiful test scenes for it, but I'm thinking next I
might try
> combining those test scenes with some of my sunrise animation tricks to
get a
> really cool animation. Although I'm not sure I have the patience to render
an
> animation with that kind of complexity!

Can't wait to see :) I should give Gilles' macros a try, The one thing I
have found annoying when dealing with media is how painfully slow it can
get.

> I'd be interested in seeing a higher-res frame from a little later in the
> animation (i.e. when the sun's a bit higher in the sky), to better see
those
> distant clouds. At the moment it's hard to tell how good they look because
> they're so small (though maybe that's a good thing?!).

Yep. I rendered a slightly larger frame and was very dissapointed, The
clouds seem to break up into bands, After many tweaks to the image, I think
I finally have the clouds looking better, but it will take quite a while to
render the animation, now. I have a 1024x768 version of one of the later
frames rendering, now (with more cloud cover) as well as the animation
running deep in the background. I expect it will take a good long while
before the animation is done.

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