Well I've been putting a lot of work into the volcano, though I've hardly 
touched anything else in the scene. As you can see I've incorporated a lot 
of the great suggestions from folks round here, thanks everyone! The only 
problems I have with the volcano now are: it's still too dark - I didn't 
realise until after this lengthy render, and there's lava touching snow in 
the foreground which is obviously complete nonsense! Next I'm going to work 
on the smoke and under-sea area.

My favourite bit in this is the lava rivers, which work using a really 
simplistic particle system that basically rolls a particle down the volcano 
leaving a trail of blobs behind it. Slight adjustments to the start position 
and random seed make it take radically different paths, which actually looks 
pretty realistic.

Anyway I thought I'd post this for further comments, and so you can see how 
much better it's got!

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Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

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