Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I believe my cliff scene is approaching its terminal state. Many things have
> been happening since my last post on this subject, not the least one being
> that I have reduced render time from 15 hours to about 3 hours (without the
> plants) or 4 hours (with the plants).
> 
> ["By Jove! I exclaimed, how did you achieve that, Holmes?"
>  "Elementary, my dear Watson. It was just a case of mind over matter."
>  (from: The Mistery of the Purloined Isosurface) ]
> 
> Well, the main secret was that I cut up the isosurface in two separate ones:
> the cliff, and the landscape. And that made a whole lot of differences!
> Obvious, you would say, but not for me :-)  I had to learn the hard way.
> Another, slight speed imporvement, was to have the rotation of the cliff
> inside the function, and not through the isosurface object.
> Otherwise, I used Rune Johansen's furtex for the landscape, which gave it a
> smoother aspect, and I re-modelled the floating seeds. The reddish bush-like
> things were made and planted with the neat little macros of Bill Pragnell.
> Thanks Bill!
> 
> So... what do you think??
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 


just amazing ....

would love to see a waterfall rinsing over the cliffs edge ;-)

... dave

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