This will be for "The Mother Hive" due later this year (on the animation 
side).

There was a reason I was working on the cliff face.

The rocks and the sand are done with a macro I've developed (and 
recently idiot-proofed) that allows me to turn any rectangular region of 
the y=0 slice of a pigment into a height field.  Putting a bunch of them 
together creates a landscape that can be arbitrarily extended in any 
direction.  More macro code allows only the height fields that are 
on-camera to be parsed into the scene, and another one enables splitting 
height_fields that extend below the viewpoint (otherwise there was a 
level-of-detail situation that crashed POV-Ray).

I originally wanted to have the cave be much more natural-looking on the 
outside, but I the SDL Muse did not bless me with a way to do it, so I 
modeled the entrance this way to save time.

Regards,
John

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