I've been working on a setting for my yucca plants. So far this is what
I have. It's supposed to be 4:3, but the render died at line 120.. I
really, REALLY need more RAM if I'm going to keep making complicated
scenes like this. -_-;

I've considered changing the grass clumps from unioned cones to meshes
to save memory so that I can make them more complex and use more of
them.. but since triangle elements can't be rotated inside a mesh
statement, I'll have to write a new grass generator from scratch, and I
haven't bothered yet.

-Xplo

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It looks great so far. Too bad about the crash.

Josh

Xplo Eristotle wrote:

> I've been working on a setting for my yucca plants. So far this is what
> I have. It's supposed to be 4:3, but the render died at line 120.. I
> really, REALLY need more RAM if I'm going to keep making complicated
> scenes like this. -_-;
>
> I've considered changing the grass clumps from unioned cones to meshes
> to save memory so that I can make them more complex and use more of
> them.. but since triangle elements can't be rotated inside a mesh
> statement, I'll have to write a new grass generator from scratch, and I
> haven't bothered yet.
>
> -Xplo
>
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>  [Image]

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Nice colours and textures. Hope you can get it to work one day.

Micl

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In article <3A5F7F3F.9C5A896C@unforgettable.com>, 
inq### [at] unforgettablecom wrote:

> I've considered changing the grass clumps from unioned cones to meshes
> to save memory so that I can make them more complex and use more of
> them.. but since triangle elements can't be rotated inside a mesh
> statement, I'll have to write a new grass generator from scratch, and I
> haven't bothered yet.

The vrotate() or (if you are using MegaPOV) vtransform() functions 
should be helpful here...you could put it in a macro, something like:
#macro TransTri(A, B, C, Trans)
    triangle {
        vtransform(A, Trans),
        vtransform(B, Trans),
        vtransform(C, Trans)
    }
#end

mesh {
    ...
    TransTri(pointA, pointB, pointC, transform {TRANSFORMATIONS})

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Just how much memory is this using, and what is the render speed on what
kind of computer? If I have a better setup, I might give it a go...

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The first 120 lines look pretty good, hope you get it workable.

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"Tony[B]" wrote:
> 
> Just how much memory is this using, and what is the render speed on what
> kind of computer? If I have a better setup, I might give it a go...

About 35 MB, and that took roughly 8 hours on an old Power Mac.. but I
need the resources for creating and testing the scene as well as for
rendering it, so you wouldn't really be able to help me. Thanks anyway, though.

-Xplo

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Xplo Eristotle wrote:

> I've been working on a setting for my yucca plants. So far this is what
> I have. It's supposed to be 4:3, but the render died at line 120.. I
> really, REALLY need more RAM if I'm going to keep making complicated
> scenes like this. -_-;
> 
> I've considered changing the grass clumps from unioned cones to meshes
> to save memory so that I can make them more complex and use more of
> them.. but since triangle elements can't be rotated inside a mesh
> statement, I'll have to write a new grass generator from scratch, and I
> haven't bothered yet.
> 
It looks very nice. Reminds me of a tinted pen and ink drawing you might find in an
old book.

How did you make the stones? I like their shapes.

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Artemia Salina wrote:
> 
> How did you make the stones? I like their shapes.

They're sphere-based isosurfaces. A macro assigns each one random
dimensions and noise intensity as they're created, and another one
distributes them randomly on a grid.

-Xplo

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