"jaime" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> schreef in bericht
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> Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> > slightly better shape, and a better background :)
> > but it took 10 minutes to trace this time
>
>    Almost AWESOME ROLEX quality... I only miss the explosion lighting
> the mountains, but that would need some magic.

well, it actually should be possible... the lighting shouldn't be as
detailed as the mountains really are, so a simplistic model of the
mountains, textured with the background-image, could be used to simulate
lighting.

The only real problem is the shadow of the smoke and dust.  The whole
explosion has a no_shadow modifier, because otherwise it renders about 100
times slower :-/
I might be able to fake the shadow too...

>    I second Skip and Slime requests for the explanation: it should be
> really interesting to read...

Once it's animatable, I'll post the source :)

cu!
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