In article <39EC5605.AEEDB94E@hotmail.com>, Anders Haglund 
<and### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> A simple smoke effect made with a function media in MegaPov. The left
> smoke is a isosurface which works great for a preview, renders in about
> half a minute on my p2-266. The right smoke is the real thing a took
> several hours to render.

Several hours?!? What media settings were you using? Hours might make 
sense with method 1, but 2 and 3 should be able to do this with much 
lower settings.


> I'm not happy about the dark shadows that it casts but it's ok for
> now...

Actually, considering only one light source and no radiosity, the shadow 
looks just right...in real life, there would be illumination from other 
sources to help fill it in, though.

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Christopher James Huff
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