[Canceled previous message.  I should have checked first.]

Gena now has http://home.covad.net/~gobukhov/tomtree-1.5.zip which should be
used instead of the TomTree.inc from Tom's site.  I'm not sure if you're
using Gena's modifications or not, but it greatly speeds up rendering and
parsing time for TomTree's.

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com


"SomeOne" <ask### [at] yahoocouknospam> wrote in message
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> A Poem by Annie M. G. Schmidt (Het Luchtkasteel) inspired me to start a
new
> project. One of the details of the project is this tree on a cloud.
> The cloud is a density field created with the cloud generator by Gilles
Tran.
> The tree is generated by the TomTree macros of Tom Aust. The leaves a
textures
> based on photographs of real leaves. Still, I think the gamma of the scene
is a
> bit too high. The leaves look rather unreal due to that. The roots are
> effectively the same tree upside-down, without the leaves, different
colour and
> scaling to fit nicely in the cloud.
> I wanted to render another image from the same detail with the camera
moved a
> bit higher. I also wanted to post a short movie where the camera moves
around
> the cloud, but this single render took 2h 46m so I decided to call it a
day.
>
> Anyway as usual your comments are highly appreciated. Remember that I plan
this
> island in the clouds to be a small part in a larger scene I'm working out
> currently. I'm thinking of using a simpler texture for the leaves to speed
up
> the render. Next, to lay foundations for a castle in another cloud off to
the
> left.
>
> -- 
> Maurice
>
>
>

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