Here are some clouds, made with the 'stacked planes' concept, except I
used a ridged multifractal for the pattern. The mountain height_field is

a ridged multifractal as well.

Any q's or comments are welcome~

P.S. Scene took 2 minutes and 47 seconds to render.

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SamuelT schrieb:
> 
> Here are some clouds, made with the 'stacked planes' concept, except I
> used a ridged multifractal for the pattern. The mountain height_field is
> 
> a ridged multifractal as well.
> 
> Any q's or comments are welcome~
> 
> P.S. Scene took 2 minutes and 47 seconds to render.
> 

looks interesting, even though you do not see much of the "ridged" in
the clouds (at least at this resolution).  I much like the heightfield
in the foreground.  

The terrain looks a bit bended, is it in the heightfield or is it due to
the camera perspective ?

Christoph

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SamuelT wrote in message <394### [at] aolcom>...
>Here are some clouds, made with the 'stacked planes' concept, except I
>used a ridged multifractal for the pattern.
>P.S. Scene took 2 minutes and 47 seconds to render.


2 minutes 47 seconds for 'stacked plane' clouds that look that good?  What
are you using to render this?????

Mark

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You can get even faster rendering times by using very thin boxes - Just make
sure they are not seen as infinate objects by Pov.
Mick

"Mark Wagner" <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
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> SamuelT wrote in message <394### [at] aolcom>...
> >Here are some clouds, made with the 'stacked planes' concept, except I
> >used a ridged multifractal for the pattern.
> >P.S. Scene took 2 minutes and 47 seconds to render.
>
>
> 2 minutes 47 seconds for 'stacked plane' clouds that look that good?  What
> are you using to render this?????
>
> Mark
>
>

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SamuelT wrote:
> 
> Here are some clouds, made with the 'stacked planes' concept, except I
> used a ridged multifractal for the pattern. The mountain height_field is
> 
> a ridged multifractal as well.
> 
> Any q's or comments are welcome~

Gaah, nice! Any chance for you posting the source? I really like the
distance ques you've put into the image.

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> Here are some clouds, made with the 'stacked planes' concept,

looks good, if a little fuzzy, but thats probably just me (i never get out,
so dont recall what real clouds look like!)

Rick

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I am running a 500 mhz amd k6-2. There are only about 6 planes stacked on
each other. They would have rendered faster, but they cast shadows.

Mark Wagner wrote:

> 2 minutes 47 seconds for 'stacked plane' clouds that look that good?  What
> are you using to render this?????
>
> Mark

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Thanks, I'll have to try that now :)

Mick Hazelgrove wrote:

> You can get even faster rendering times by using very thin boxes - Just make
> sure they are not seen as infinate objects by Pov.
> Mick

~Sam

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Another good scene, you don't seem to have a problem rendering such things.
My observation would be that the haze appears very localized, perhaps intended
however, as in a volcanic caldron region where a gas is escaping.

Bob

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Bob Hughes wrote:

> My observation would be that the haze appears very localized, perhaps intended
> however, as in a volcanic caldron region where a gas is escaping.

Perhaps that's due to the camera angle (ultra_wide_angle) and the shape of the
mountain.

~Sam

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