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From: Tek
Subject: cheap smoke (divx)
Date: 31 Oct 2002 21:33:46
Message: <3dc1e80a@news.povray.org>
I've been meaning to post this here for ages. This is an early test-render for
the smoke I used in my Meteor entry to the Force Of Nature round. In many ways I
think it looks even better than the smoke in the final animation.

The cool thing is, this only took 7 minutes 25 seconds to render!

The reason it's so "cheap" is that I've cheated! :) The smoke consists of lots
of discs turned to face the camera. Each disc fades to transparent at the edge,
and has a normal to make it look spherical. There's only 300 particles in the
animation. There's also a couple of bugs that I fixed in the final animation,
but I still like it.

Anyone want source?

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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: cheap smoke (divx)
Date: 31 Oct 2002 21:38:54
Message: <3dc1e93e$1@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
news:3dc1e80a@news.povray.org...
>
> Anyone want source?
>

How about MPG-1?


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: cheap smoke mpeg-1
Date: 31 Oct 2002 21:59:52
Message: <3dc1ee28@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson <gregj:-)56590@ao:-)l.com> wrote in message
news:3dc1e93e$1@news.povray.org...
> How about MPG-1?

Ahem, yes... Well I'm afraid I don't have the source to it any more! I thought I
had an mpeg version of the animation lying around somewhere, but it seems not...

However I have found a later version of the effect, and after some tampering
I've managed to render a similar animation. It doesn't look quite as nice 'cause
the lighting is set up differently.

This one took 9 minutes 6 seconds on my P3 550MHz, whereas the other one took 7
minutes 25 secs on a P4 2Ghz!

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From: Tek
Subject: Re: cheap smoke mpeg-1
Date: 31 Oct 2002 22:02:58
Message: <3dc1eee2@news.povray.org>
Tek <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message news:3dc1ee28@news.povray.org...
> This one took 9 minutes 6 seconds on my P3 550MHz, whereas the other one took
7
> minutes 25 secs on a P4 2Ghz!

Doh! Of course the reason the 2Gig PC took nearly as long is that there's 2x
more frames in the first animation... It's too late at night...

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From: Slime
Subject: Re: cheap smoke mpeg-1
Date: 31 Oct 2002 23:05:12
Message: <3dc1fd78@news.povray.org>
Whats your max trace level at? Is it just me or are there some black spots
here and there real quick?

And did you consider trying actual clipped hemispheres instead of discs with
normals?

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: cheap smoke mpeg-1
Date: 1 Nov 2002 04:00:26
Message: <3dc242aa@news.povray.org>
Max trace was only 8. Though I think the black spots are mostly caused by
something else. The version used in the irtc entry didn't suffer from that
problem so badly.

The fade at the edge wouldn't work with hemispheres, it wouldn't give the
illusion of being completely soft.

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Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

Slime <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote in message news:3dc1fd78@news.povray.org...
> Whats your max trace level at? Is it just me or are there some black spots
> here and there real quick?
>
> And did you consider trying actual clipped hemispheres instead of discs with
> normals?
>
>  - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>


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From: Remco de Korte
Subject: Re: cheap smoke (divx)
Date: 1 Nov 2002 06:03:43
Message: <3DC25F35.59AB1E61@onwijs.com>
Excellent trick! Works like a charm. In this case at least.
Mind if I borrow it?
:)

Remco


Tek wrote:
> 
> I've been meaning to post this here for ages. This is an early test-render for
> the smoke I used in my Meteor entry to the Force Of Nature round. In many ways I
> think it looks even better than the smoke in the final animation.
> 
> The cool thing is, this only took 7 minutes 25 seconds to render!
> 
> The reason it's so "cheap" is that I've cheated! :) The smoke consists of lots
> of discs turned to face the camera. Each disc fades to transparent at the edge,
> and has a normal to make it look spherical. There's only 300 particles in the
> animation. There's also a couple of bugs that I fixed in the final animation,
> but I still like it.
> 
> Anyone want source?
> 
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> 
>                            Name: cheapsmoke(7-25).avi
>    cheapsmoke(7-25).avi    Type: WMPLAYER File (video/avi)
>                        Encoding: x-uuencode


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: cheap smoke mpeg-1
Date: 1 Nov 2002 08:34:55
Message: <3dc282ff@news.povray.org>
Whooo.  Smoky.

There was a cool anim of a tornado in irtc, but it looked like a cylinder of
sandpaper.


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: cheap smoke (divx)
Date: 1 Nov 2002 08:39:12
Message: <3dc28400@news.povray.org>
Very impressive
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From: Tek
Subject: Re: cheap smoke (divx)
Date: 1 Nov 2002 18:44:07
Message: <3dc311c7$1@news.povray.org>
Of course not. I'll post the source in p.b.s-f

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Remco de Korte <rem### [at] onwijscom> wrote in message
news:3DC25F35.59AB1E61@onwijs.com...
> Excellent trick! Works like a charm. In this case at least.
> Mind if I borrow it?
> :)
>
> Remco
>
>
> Tek wrote:
> >
> > I've been meaning to post this here for ages. This is an early test-render
for
> > the smoke I used in my Meteor entry to the Force Of Nature round. In many
ways I
> > think it looks even better than the smoke in the final animation.
> >
> > The cool thing is, this only took 7 minutes 25 seconds to render!
> >
> > The reason it's so "cheap" is that I've cheated! :) The smoke consists of
lots
> > of discs turned to face the camera. Each disc fades to transparent at the
edge,
> > and has a normal to make it look spherical. There's only 300 particles in
the
> > animation. There's also a couple of bugs that I fixed in the final
animation,
> > but I still like it.
> >
> > Anyone want source?
> >
> > --
> > Tek
> > http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> >
> >                            Name: cheapsmoke(7-25).avi
> >    cheapsmoke(7-25).avi    Type: WMPLAYER File (video/avi)
> >                        Encoding: x-uuencode


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