On 3-10-2013 18:10, MichaelJF wrote:
>
> Yes, the athmosphere is very well met. I propose to make the rain streaks
> thinner and shorter, have more of them and have less variation in the
> directions. As it is in the picture inspiring you, or in photographs.

I agree. I have not been too happy with the random directions the 
falling drops take. However, this is easy to remedy as it just is a 
rand() parameter in Jaimes's macro. There are already 400000 drops but I 
shall double them yet again and make them thinner/shorter too.

>
> After having rendered Jaime's example scene some years ago, I often wondered
> about this issue, since I cannot observe this streaks in reality. I see only
> falling drops (or very short streaks). As I understand it, the streaks one sees
> in photographs are only due to motion blur not visible to the eye (at least not
> at such an extend). But we are used to look at photographs and accept this
> deviation. So it is a issue of photorealism to model it. Even if we will not
> notice the effect in reality. In a way one can compare it with the DoF-issue.

Indeed.

> BTW: The community who understands the word Drookit without having to look it up
> at the Oxford dictionary is much smaller than the Dutch speaking one;-) But it
> is ever interesting to learn how much the Scotch language differs from English.

LOL. Personally, I am a great fan of languages (any languages).

>
> BTW2: The entry for McAvoy is missing at
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tartans
>
> but can be found at:
>
> http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/

Thank you sir, I filed this info ;-)

Thomas

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