POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Not Islay : Re: Not Islay - WIP 4 Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:13:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Not Islay - WIP 4  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 24 Apr 2015 10:27:42
Message: <553a52de$1@news.povray.org>
On 24-4-2015 14:22, Stephen wrote:
> On 24/04/2015 12:15, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> To give an idea of the direction I want to go.
>>
>
> Go West, young man. ;-)

Aye, me laird :-)

>
>
> You really are capturing the atmosphere of those western islands.

Thanks indeed. Just trying to assimilate the views and translate them to 
a believable environment. I am enjoying myself :-)

>
> One thing and I feel that I am always being over critical. Sorry.
> The wall in these areas are generally of dry stone construction. The top
> layer is generally rounded. (Google "dry stone dyke")
> Once you have sorted out the spline problem you might be able to add a
> single layer on top of the main part.

If I want to go on with Blockwall, the dry stone construction is 
possible, except maybe for the top layer of vertical stone slabs. I 
might get into trouble with that.

>
> The castle is perfect.
>
Ah yes! Modelled in Silo, gradually adding disjointed wall segments 
towards the top, then roughing the wall surfaces so that the slope 
texture could get hold.


-- 
Thomas


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