POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : improved sunset : Re: improved sunset Server Time
9 Aug 2024 21:12:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: improved sunset  
From: scott
Date: 9 Dec 2004 05:27:15
Message: <41b82883$1@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:
>> Well I added something better than a flat plane, and moved the
>> camera under the clouds.
>
>
> It's a major improvement. The colors remind me of a sunset much more
> now. I would suggest increasing the size of the clouds unless you're
> really going for that wispy look.
>
>> For some reason it rendered *really* slow (and we're talking pixels
>> per minute here) if I tried to use the media clouds and the 10000
>> trees at the same time.
>
> That's strange. Does it still do that if you add no_shadow to the
> trees? I would understand the trees slowing things down because of
> shadow rays, but not by *that* much. At least not in the upper half
> of the image.

That's what confused me too, I left it for a few minutes and it hadn't even
finished the top line.  I'll try the no_shadow on the trees this evening if
I get time.


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