Heh, yeah.

The rain drops are pushing the limits of my patience. I put in 15,000,000
drop for this image, and the parse time is well over three hours.

I'll search for a better way.

GrimDude
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> The rain drops are pushing the limits of my patience. I put in > 15,000,000 drop for
this image

You've obviously been to the Isle of Man.

	Graham.

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GrimDude wrote:
> 
> Heh, I haven't got the hang of media type explosions...quite.
> 
> --
> GrimDude
> vos### [at] arkansasnet
> 
>  [Image]

That's rain there isn't it? Very good.
And yes, the explosion is the weak bit. If you cut of the lower half of the
image (which happened before scrolling) it's almost like one of those 17th
century aircraft-paintings ;-)

But, typically, the planes are great, but for some reason the rain caight my eye
first.

Remco

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GrimDude wrote:
> 
> Heh, I haven't got the hang of media type explosions...quite.
> 

I love the feel of this image, it makes me feel cold like I want to take
a warm shower... and I think I like the rain this way, imperfect, it
reeks of almost the artists distaste for the subject matter :) And by
accident or intent, the blue gap in the desolate skies in the upper
right is almost poigant... now, if a spiral of particles and smoke with
a better flames replaced the one  thats there, this would be a winner :)

Nice HFs too.

-- 
Saif Ansari
	Choking on the dust of humanity
	Slashing my wrists with silicon

"Don't blow those brains yet
we gotta be big
boy
we gotta be big." -- Tori Amos

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I think the rain is good.  Too much and it would take away from the
scene.  What you need is some landscape.  What are they bombing?  But
some buildings or ships in there to blow up.  I like it though.

GrimDude wrote:
> 
> Heh, yeah.
> 
> The rain drops are pushing the limits of my patience. I put in 15,000,000
> drop for this image, and the parse time is well over three hours.
> 
> I'll search for a better way.
> 
> GrimDude
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:06:11 -0600, "GrimDude" <vos### [at] arkansasnet>
wrote:

>Heh, I haven't got the hang of media type explosions...quite.

A great action image.  Most of the best comments have been made, and I
also like the atmosphere you have evoked with the cloudy sky and rain.
It seems churlish to criticize anything in it, but I am puzzled by the
RAF fighters.  I take it they are meant to be Hawker Hurricanes but
the proportions seem wrong.  I suppose it really shouldn't matter, but
because it is otherwise such a good representation of reality, this
detail  jarred a little with me.
I look forward to seeing your next version when you have sorted out
the explosion.
David
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portelli wrote in message <36B5E72C.22ECF9BC@pilot.msu.edu>...
>I think the rain is good.  Too much and it would take away from the
>scene.  What you need is some landscape.  What are they bombing?  But
>some buildings or ships in there to blow up.  I like it though.


Do they have to be bombing something? The image is titled "*Intercept* over
Isle of Man", so I guess the Germans were *on their way* to the bombing,
when they were intercepted and the dogfight began...

BTW, I like the image too, the rain is good (and as many others said, the
explosion is bad ;-)

Johannes.

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The rain may be done like in a previous irtc image on 'water' there was a
scene of a man going into a house? I think a plane in front of camera with a
spotted texture streched diagonaly and illuminated with a light fading
quick.  just an idea, obviously not getting rain 'into' the scene but might
look okay.

GrimDude wrote:

> Heh, yeah.
>
> The rain drops are pushing the limits of my patience. I put in 15,000,000
> drop for this image, and the parse time is well over three hours.
>
> I'll search for a better way.
>
> GrimDude
> vos### [at] arkansasnet

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Mark Palmquist wrote in message <36B### [at] earthlinknet>...
>The rain may be done like in a previous irtc image on 'water' there was a
>scene of a man going into a house? I think a plane in front of camera with
a
>spotted texture streched diagonaly and illuminated with a light fading
>quick.  just an idea, obviously not getting rain 'into' the scene but might
>look okay.
>


I like them SO much better when they're 3D. :)

I did experiment with lenses, and normals, and a few other things.

I did the original intercept image just to set it up for an animation. I
will have to revisit the Hurri and Heinkel models just a little, and then
I'll be ready to trace. I expect 32 frames to extend over 19 days and then
I'll be the only one that ever sees it. heh

GrimDude
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Attachments:
Download 'Drop.jpg' (2 KB)

Preview of image 'Drop.jpg'

yes, I agree.  I tried 2500 rain drops (spheres and cone with a gradient
texture) and used up over 40 hrs on a P-90 64MB RAM, now have pII-333 256MB RAM
may try again -:)

GrimDude wrote:

> Mark Palmquist wrote in message <36B### [at] earthlinknet>...
> >The rain may be done like in a previous irtc image on 'water' there was a
> >scene of a man going into a house? I think a plane in front of camera with
> a
> >spotted texture streched diagonaly and illuminated with a light fading
> >quick.  just an idea, obviously not getting rain 'into' the scene but might
> >look okay.
> >
>
> I like them SO much better when they're 3D. :)
>
> I did experiment with lenses, and normals, and a few other things.
>
> I did the original intercept image just to set it up for an animation. I
> will have to revisit the Hurri and Heinkel models just a little, and then
> I'll be ready to trace. I expect 32 frames to extend over 19 days and then
> I'll be the only one that ever sees it. heh
>
> GrimDude
> vos### [at] arkansasnet
>
>  [Image]

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