Hello again everyone.

Here's the most recent version of the planetoid. It's a bit big (sorry!) but
it needs to be really because of the detail.

I'm pretty happy with the colouring now, although I think I need to crank
the radiosity up a little bit. I'm aware of my cock-up on the lower
balconies (e.g., top-left, front-right); the matter has now been resolved.
I'm also quite satisfied with the boulder - looks a lot more cliff-like
now.

I have two issues to ponder:
Firstly, do I put holes in the rock where the buildings intersect it? Or
not? Secondly, there is still a slight problem with the overall scale. My
thought is that the windows could be slightly smaller and the vegetation
(very) slightly larger... comments?

Still to do: people. Actually, they're done now. But it took over 3 days to
render this pic so they're not in it yet.
Still to do: something subtle in the background. I don't know what yet.

Some stats:
41,179 frame level objects.
Peak memory: 123,899,186 bytes.
Time for parse: 40 seconds.
Time for trace: 79 hours 55 minutes 50 seconds.

Bill

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