POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images: "The Expanse" Fanart, WIP - Ship passing a ring gate into the ring space: Re: "The Expanse" Fanart, WIP

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From: Hj Malthaner
Date: 1 Feb 2021 22:54:26
Message: <6018ccf2$1@news.povray.org>

On 1/28/21 6:07 PM, Alain Martel wrote:
> Le 2021-01-28 à 02:45, Thomas de Groot a écrit :

>> Aaaah! Much better! Like in the example, you can vary the diffused 
>> light over ring space (I would suggest a hdri map *) and add a few 
>> lights on/in the ship itself.
>>
>> * easy to make: just draw an appropriate image map and save it in hdr 
>> format. There are several paint or converting programs that can do that.
>>
> Or make one in POV-Ray and save directly as .HDR or .EXR.
> 
> In this case, a cylindrical mapping looks like it's the way to go. Just 
> map on a vertical cylinder cantered around the Y axis, then, rotate it 
> as needed.

A feature that I have not tried yet. Seems to be time to do!

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