Hi all, thought I'd share the output of Leveller's recent changes to its 
POV-Ray export -- textured billboards that auto-rotate to face the 
camera during stills and animations, plus path-based camera motion.

http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/landshaper_golf/gallery/povray_flyover3.swf

(The water waves are animated, but it's not really evident because of 
their far distance from the camera.)

Render speed was good; 2 hours for 240 frames of 512 x 384 on a single 
thread in 3.6. Hope to get quad-core 3.7 benchmarks later on.

max_trace has to be set very high, but the number of billboards 
intersecting an eye ray on average isn't great for a typical flyover.

Ray

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