"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> > Here's a place I used for the bump map of the moon!
> >
> > http://planetpixelemporium.com/earth8081.html
> >
>
>
> Sorry Leroy, I misunderstood your answer or you misunderstood my request.
>
> I need nice environments for take-off and landing. In the case of the moon,
> something with gentle hills, which should also look like a lunar landscape in
> terms of coloring. I haven't been able to do it properly so far.
>
> Even an attempt to use the global maps for this only cost me hours of time.
>
> I have enough sources for views from orbit. Moon and Mars with horizontal
> resolutions > 16,000 pixels.
>
> Ma

I understood what you wanted to Land and maybe take off from the moon. I landed
on mars awhile back. What I did is take just a part the 'bump_map' that I needed
and turn it into an height_field and then use the matching part of an
'image_map' for the pigment. I thought the Web address I gave you had both.

The Mars video I made is on my website http://leroyw.byethost15.com
It's under 'Videos' name 'Exploring Mars'(of course)

I wish I could tell how it was all done but it was a looooooooog time ago and
I've sleep since then. If you need the code I can look it up.

Have Fun!

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"js" wrote:
> I look forward to further work by you.

You will hear from me! (Schwarzenegger-voice)


"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> The Mars video I made is on my website http://leroyw.byethost15.com
> It's under 'Videos' name 'Exploring Mars'(of course)

I knew the video!
Have seen it month or even years before.
From 2005? How long did you render ... a week?
Nice work.

I have also tried my hand at a humanoid robot, but the work did not stop and did
not stop. But I would love to have one, or even a human figure. Wouldn't have to
be lifelike. Better a little comic than badly realistic.

If it's not too much work, see if you can find the code. I, on the other hand,
cannot promise that I will use any of it in the near future, so don't hurry. You
won't believe it, I like the parachute, I might need it soon :)

We Povrayers should exchange or provide much more code anyway, there are so few
of us.

Gr
Ma

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "js" wrote:
> I knew the video!
> Have seen it month or even years before.
> From 2005? How long did you render ... a week?
> Nice work.

You're Right about the date. A few years latter I add the audio. The render time
was about 34 hours, not counting putting it all together into a mpg. I found the
code for IT with no problem (well I did forget the name it was saved under).
Likely some time in the pass I put all my animations in a folder on my XP.

>
> I have also tried my hand at a humanoid robot, but the work did not stop and did
> not stop. But I would love to have one, or even a human figure. Wouldn't have to
> be lifelike. Better a little comic than badly realistic.

 The robot was one of the my first. I was still trying to set up the frame to
frame pose animation and get things organize. A Robot is a complicated object.
And to get one moving even more complicated.
 There's about 60 variables to make a robot. So I cut a robot into 3 parts
Body,Face,Hands. Each of these have their own pose files and object files. The
object file would take the pose variables and make the part.
 I better watch it or I'll write a whole page of nothing but how to build and
animate robots. To make a long story longer. I have to say I have a Robot
Factory now that can combine different bodies,heads and hands into a BOT and
then animate it. But I'm never satisfied I keep adding on to it.

>
> If it's not too much work, see if you can find the code. I, on the other hand,
> cannot promise that I will use any of it in the near future, so don't hurry. You
> won't believe it, I like the parachute, I might need it soon :)
>

 As for the code It's on my other computer and it's isolated. That is I need to
load stuff to a flash drive to get to this computer. The code large & might call
somethings long gone. I haven't rerun it all. But what I did stopped. But the
parachute show be easy to get. Just how much do ya want?

> We Povrayers should exchange or provide much more code anyway, there are so few
> of us.

I thought we ruled the world!

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"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>  The robot was one of the my first. I was still trying to set up the frame to
> frame pose animation and get things organize. A Robot is a complicated object.
> And to get one moving even more complicated.
>  There's about 60 variables to make a robot. So I cut a robot into 3 parts
> Body,Face,Hands. Each of these have their own pose files and object files. The
> object file would take the pose variables and make the part.
>  I better watch it or I'll write a whole page of nothing but how to build and
> animate robots. To make a long story longer. I have to say I have a Robot
> Factory now that can combine different bodies,heads and hands into a BOT and
> then animate it. But I'm never satisfied I keep adding on to it.

I solved so many really tricky problems one after the other, only to find that I
hadn't even done a quarter of the way.

It started with from where to where build it up. This affects how it behaves in
not-standing positions (e.g. leaning to the side, jumping,...) and how he can be
controlled.

And then, of course, the appearance, how the individual parts can be human-like.

And the damn skull, I hadn't even touched it yet.

And... and... AND...


>  As for the code It's on my other computer and it's isolated. That is I need to
> load stuff to a flash drive to get to this computer. The code large & might call
> somethings long gone. I haven't rerun it all. But what I did stopped. But the
> parachute show be easy to get. Just how much do ya want?

The parachute would be cool, but please please don't waste hours and days. Maybe
I won't use it or only in x months. If it's easy to extract - great, if not,
don't do it.

Gr
Ma

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hi,

"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >  The robot ...
> And the damn skull, I hadn't even touched it yet.
> And... and... AND...

"bonus" for a good name, _v_ nice.


regards, jr.

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> And the damn skull, I hadn't even touched it yet.
>
> And... and... AND...
>

Not a bad bot. You could make an army of them!
And don't worry about the skull. One day when less expected, Wham it'll come to
you.

>
> The parachute would be cool, but please please don't waste hours and days. Maybe
> I won't use it or only in x months. If it's easy to extract - great, if not,
> don't do it.

It was very easy and small. Here it is:

 #declare PPig=pigment{radial color_map{[0 Black][.1 Tan]
                    [.3 rgb<.9,.9,.85>][.6 rgb<.9,.8,.85>]
                    [.9 Tan][1 Black]}
                    frequency 20}
 #declare Para= union{sphere{0,4 translate y*2
                    clipped_by{ box {<-4.1,4.4,-4.1>,<4.1,5.9,4.1>}}}
                    sphere{0,4 translate y*2
                    clipped_by{ box {<-4.1,3.5,-4.1>,<4.1,2,4.1>}}}
                    cone{y*2,4,-y*.25,3.9 open}
                    }
#declare ParaChute=
 union{
  object{Para pigment{PPig} translate y*50}
  sphere{0,1 scale<1,.25,1> translate y*25 pigment{rgb<.25,.15,.25>}}

 //cords
   #declare Cnt = 0;
  #while (Cnt < 360)
   cylinder{0,<4,20,0>,.05 rotate y*Cnt pigment{Tan*.5} translate y*30}
  #declare Cnt = Cnt+20;
  #end
   cone{y*25,.15,y*31,.2 pigment{rgb 0}}//short link
   cylinder{0,y*30,.15 pigment{rgb 0}}//long link
 }

Straight from the code, It is fairly long 50 or so POV units.

Have Fun!

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"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> And don't worry about the skull. One day when less expected, Wham it'll come to
> you.

I worked far longer than week on the robot AND THAT DID NOT HAPPEN !!!

- - -

Parachute successfully opened!

I fixed some small errors (missing cords in the gap, ...) and will make it more
variable in the next days, but so far the chute looks cute :)

Will send you the code when ready.

Thanks for that.
To build that from scratch would cost much more time.

Ma

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Will send you the code when ready.

Here the code for now.
Maybe I will do some more in the next days.

Gr
Ma

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"Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Maetes" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Will send you the code when ready.
>
> Here the code for now.
> Maybe I will do some more in the next days.
>
> Gr
> Ma

Thanks! Download it already. The reason I didn't put those cords in was probably
time. I made that for a contest. I other thing to worry about and it looked
good.

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"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Thanks! Download it already. The reason I didn't put those cords in was probably
> time. I made that for a contest. I other thing to worry about and it looked
> good.

No problem, I know the time required only too well. I saw the small mistakes and
just HAD to fix them. But it was a nice division of labor, I think.

I stopped when I was thinking about an unfolding process, and that would cost me
days again :)

ma

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