Possible because I'm not sure whether it will be good
enough to enter. As soon as I get some time I'll
be creating the person who made the footsteps in the foreground.
Person from poser, clothing modelled in rhino.

Tentative title: Ice Castle

Comments?

Gail
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Gail Shaw <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote:

> Possible because I'm not sure whether it will be good
> enough to enter. As soon as I get some time I'll
> be creating the person who made the footsteps in the foreground.
> Person from poser, clothing modelled in rhino.

> Tentative title: Ice Castle

> Comments?

Very nice.  Reminds me of the one cover to the Golden Compass I've got.

I'd work on the textures of the Castle.  Currently looks a little flat.

Geoff

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> Gail Shaw <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote:
>
> Very nice.  Reminds me of the one cover to the Golden Compass I've got.
>
> I'd work on the textures of the Castle.  Currently looks a little flat.

It's supposed to be ice. I considered adding a brick normal but
thought that would remove the 'not of this world' feeling. Looking
aain, I think the ambient is too high.

Gail
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Gail Shaw <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote:


> Geoff Wedig <wed### [at] darwinepbicwruedu> wrote in message
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>> Gail Shaw <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote:
>>
>> Very nice.  Reminds me of the one cover to the Golden Compass I've got.
>>
>> I'd work on the textures of the Castle.  Currently looks a little flat.

> It's supposed to be ice. I considered adding a brick normal but
> thought that would remove the 'not of this world' feeling. Looking
> aain, I think the ambient is too high.

That's quite possibly the problem.  Are you using radiosity?  In dark scenes
like this, radiosity adds a lot of depth to the shadows which are otherwise
pretty flat looking.

Geoff

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> That's quite possibly the problem.  Are you using radiosity?  In dark
scenes
> like this, radiosity adds a lot of depth to the shadows which are
otherwise
> pretty flat looking.

Not currently, probably later. Will try with radiosity tomorrow.

Gail
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> It's supposed to be ice. I considered adding a brick normal but
> thought that would remove the 'not of this world' feeling. Looking
> aain, I think the ambient is too high.

Yes, I think the ambient is the problem.  Where is the light source?  It
looks like the end of the bridge is very bright. Is it at the base of the
castle?  How did you make your ice?  Is it just a transparent block with
ior, or did you use some media effects?  I think it would look more like ice
if you gave the ice a bit of white media effect (bubbles in the ice?) and
cast the light up onto it, maybe from several spotlights around the castle.
That's a nice landscape heightfield.  Now I finally see what the northern
lights were for.  :-)

Stephen Bell
http://students.oc.edu/stephen.bell

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Stephen Bell <ste### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

>> It's supposed to be ice. I considered adding a brick normal but
>> thought that would remove the 'not of this world' feeling. Looking
>> aain, I think the ambient is too high.

> Yes, I think the ambient is the problem.  Where is the light source?  It
> looks like the end of the bridge is very bright. Is it at the base of the
> castle?  How did you make your ice?  Is it just a transparent block with
> ior, or did you use some media effects?  I think it would look more like ice
> if you gave the ice a bit of white media effect (bubbles in the ice?) and
> cast the light up onto it, maybe from several spotlights around the castle.
> That's a nice landscape heightfield.  Now I finally see what the northern
> lights were for.  :-)

You know, that brought up an interesting idea.  If your ice is partially
transparent, you might want to photon it.  If you do it right and place a
couple of cliffs nearby, you could get some really nice colors (assuming you
let the light split into component colors) and such.  Could be *really*
pretty.

Of course, I've never worked with photons, so I don't know how hard that'd
be.

Geoff

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The gratuitous use of towers makes it look Disneylandish. I hate Disney. Not
that you should change your artistic vision or anything.


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Stephen Bell <ste### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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> > It's supposed to be ice. I considered adding a brick normal but
> > thought that would remove the 'not of this world' feeling. Looking
> > aain, I think the ambient is too high.
>
> Yes, I think the ambient is the problem.  Where is the light source?

One behind the camera to the right, one at the top of the tallest tower

> It
> looks like the end of the bridge is very bright. Is it at the base of the
> castle?

Yup, guess it's reflecting the castle

> How did you make your ice?  Is it just a transparent block with
> ior, or did you use some media effects?

No media (too slow at this point.)

> I think it would look more like ice
> if you gave the ice a bit of white media effect (bubbles in the ice?) and
> cast the light up onto it, maybe from several spotlights around the
castle.

Will try

> That's a nice landscape heightfield.

Thanks. Each mountain is a seperate height field, all created in vue
d'espirit

>Now I finally see what the northern
> lights were for.  :-)
>

Yup <grin>

Gail
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Nice work .

What is d'espirit? Is it available on the net?

Nekar
"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote in message
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>
> Stephen Bell <ste### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:3acb6ce3$1@news.povray.org...
> > > It's supposed to be ice. I considered adding a brick normal but
> > > thought that would remove the 'not of this world' feeling. Looking
> > > aain, I think the ambient is too high.
> >
> > Yes, I think the ambient is the problem.  Where is the light source?
>
> One behind the camera to the right, one at the top of the tallest tower
>
> > It
> > looks like the end of the bridge is very bright. Is it at the base of
the
> > castle?
>
> Yup, guess it's reflecting the castle
>
> > How did you make your ice?  Is it just a transparent block with
> > ior, or did you use some media effects?
>
> No media (too slow at this point.)
>
> > I think it would look more like ice
> > if you gave the ice a bit of white media effect (bubbles in the ice?)
and
> > cast the light up onto it, maybe from several spotlights around the
> castle.
>
> Will try
>
> > That's a nice landscape heightfield.
>
> Thanks. Each mountain is a seperate height field, all created in vue
> d'espirit
>
> >Now I finally see what the northern
> > lights were for.  :-)
> >
>
> Yup <grin>
>
> Gail
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