POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Locked door [76K] : Re: Locked door [update:81K] Server Time
9 Aug 2024 13:25:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Locked door [update:81K]  
From: Thomas Lake
Date: 1 Feb 2005 18:57:18
Message: <4200175e$1@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
>> Very nice work on the door and latch. Certain parts still look too 
>> "procedural" though, like the lock and the corners of the latch "pad" 
>> where you can see some rough tessellation. 
> 
> 
>    Yep... but it's easy to solve with Wings3d: just select the
> offending faces and smooth again.
> 
>> You know this would probably look really good if you backed the camera 
>> off just a bit.
> 
> 
>    Totally right, but I didn't think of it. Now that you said it, I
> figured it would be nice to show a bit of the wall too. Thanks!

Much nicer!

As Darren points out though the padlock looks a little off. Perhaps it's 
the fact that it looks too round, almost cartoonish. I know that some 
old padlocks look a bit like this but I think even old ones tend to have 
a flatter face. Here are some examples:

http://www.charleslocksmith.com/Working_Padlocks.htm


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