Hi :)

SInce all Advanced users post here I thought I'd ask for your help

I just got POVRAY windows version - I had the AMiga version a while back.

I need a 12 frame Povray Smoke Animation, that loops fairly smoothly given
the 12 frame animation limit. Its for a mod I'm doing for a game called
Combat Mission, for the burning tanks.

The animation needs to be a side profile and vertical rising, and look black
and oliy like that Pearl Harbour shot on the Povray main page.

Can anyone help, and send me a setup for Povray that will do this - I'm
churning out textures for this mod I'm doing so I havebn't got much time to
get really in deep with Povray within 2weeks.

If anyone is able and willing - then I thank you - can you email me please

ccj### [at] idxcomau

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CoolColJ wrote:

> I need a 12 frame Povray Smoke Animation, that loops fairly smoothly given
> the 12 frame animation limit. Its for a mod I'm doing for a game called
> Combat Mission, for the burning tanks.

> If anyone is able and willing - then I thank you - can you email me please

There is a smoke generating include file that you might find useful for
this purpose. It was designed with animations in mind.

http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch/smokegen/smokegen.htm

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"CoolColJ" <ccj### [at] idxcomau> writes:
> 
> I need a 12 frame Povray Smoke Animation, that loops fairly smoothly given
> the 12 frame animation limit. Its for a mod I'm doing for a game called
> Combat Mission, for the burning tanks.
> 
> The animation needs to be a side profile and vertical rising, and look black
> and oliy like that Pearl Harbour shot on the Povray main page.

Why not try to animate the smoke of this image? The source code is
available at http://www.irtc.org/stills/1998-12-31.html

Thomas

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Thomas Willhalm wrote in message ...
>"CoolColJ" <ccj### [at] idxcomau> writes:
>>
>> I need a 12 frame Povray Smoke Animation, that loops fairly smoothly
given
>> the 12 frame animation limit. Its for a mod I'm doing for a game called
>> Combat Mission, for the burning tanks.
>>
>> The animation needs to be a side profile and vertical rising, and look
black
>> and oliy like that Pearl Harbour shot on the Povray main page.
>
>Why not try to animate the smoke of this image? The source code is
>available at http://www.irtc.org/stills/1998-12-31.html


This might be practical if he has access to a high-end Cray.  That smoke
takes about 12 hours to render on a 400Mhz AMD K6-2.  It takes even longer
when using media method 3 (I stopped the render after five minutes on a
single pixel).

Mark

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In article <38bb5616@news.povray.org>, "Mark Wagner" 
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

> This might be practical if he has access to a high-end Cray.  That smoke
> takes about 12 hours to render on a 400Mhz AMD K6-2.  It takes even longer
> when using media method 3 (I stopped the render after five minutes on a
> single pixel).

Using media method 3 will usually only speed things up if you adjust the 
sampling parameters...using the same parameters for both doesn't work 
well.

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Chris Huff
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Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
: It takes even longer
: when using media method 3

  Using the method 3 would just destroy the grany-look of the smoke. I think
it would not be good.

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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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"Mark Wagner" <mar### [at] gtenet> writes:

> Thomas Willhalm wrote in message ...
> >"CoolColJ" <ccj### [at] idxcomau> writes:
> >>
> >> I need a 12 frame Povray Smoke Animation, that loops fairly smoothly
> given
> >> the 12 frame animation limit. Its for a mod I'm doing for a game called
> >> Combat Mission, for the burning tanks.
> >>
> >> The animation needs to be a side profile and vertical rising, and look
> black
> >> and oliy like that Pearl Harbour shot on the Povray main page.
> >
> >Why not try to animate the smoke of this image? The source code is
> >available at http://www.irtc.org/stills/1998-12-31.html
> 
> 
> This might be practical if he has access to a high-end Cray.  That smoke
> takes about 12 hours to render on a 400Mhz AMD K6-2.  

12 hours times 12 frames makes 144 hours or 6 days. I consider this as
an acceptable time for a final rendition. If you have several computers
available, you can distribute the calculations. I'm a bit amazed about
your comment, since you know this, too.

Designing a scene with such a long render time is a pain. I know this,
because I did it myself by modifying this smoke for a scene (see
http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/algo/amore/) and I didn't have a Cray
handy. Render time has been around 10 hours.

Thomas


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