John VanSickle wrote:
> Ray Gardener wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> One thing you could try is to render a scene with just the 3d model of 
> the tree from the same general direction as the camera will view the 
> actual tree in the final scene; then use this image as the visible 
> billboard representation of each tree in the scene.  That will tend to 
> mitigate the "Doom corpse" effect, IYKWIM.  For each frame, render the 
> tree from that frame's view direction.
> 
> The model will be the only thing in the scene and should render quickly.
> 
> Also, the shady side of the tree will be darker than the sunny side of 
> the tree.

Yeah, I'd like to try that. My tree models aren't too complex, should 
only add a few seconds per frame. I can also skip imagemap creation 
every N-1 out of N frames given some angular tolerance, say, wait until 
the camera angle has gone above five degrees from the last time we 
rendered imagemaps.

Ray

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