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From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 18 Dec 2013 03:16:11
Message: <52b159cb$1@news.povray.org>
On 17-12-2013 17:09, Stephen wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> I went back to the drawing board and took up TomTree more seriously with
>> the Docs at hand. The result is here, in a fair weather view of the
>> scene, and the stone pines as I intended them.
>>
>
> Ah! so that is what the waves in the road were.
> To me the original image looks as if the road is flooding.

You are not wrong. When it rains, the tracks flood indeed with water 
puddles. :-)

>
>> My experience now shows that it is better to work first on a TomTree
>> file, with a proof render to see how modelling progresses, and only
>> after that read it into POV-Tree for a mesh export. Second, only use the
>> mesh export for distant views and use the blob version for the foreground.
>>
>
> I think that if you wrote a tutorial, it would be much appreciated.
> In your own time of course. :-)
>

Not a bad suggestion maybe. I guess there are many who do like me: just 
mess around without reading the available documentation properly ;-)

I think I could do some additional writing to the documentation written 
by Tom Aust, and some shell about it to link the tomtree macro more 
comprehensively to POV-Tree and in a more useful way.

I'll have to see the boss about my own time... ;-)

Thomas


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