Thought this turned out well considering there isn't any AA used so here it is
for all to see.
Rendered in 36 minutes on my 500MHz PIII.
It's all slope-dependant texturing used on the iso, water is separate plane,
along with simple sky_sphere.
I always think of Vistapro, the terrain renderer, when I do these.
A person could change these kinds of things forever and I'd still like anything
that comes of it.

Bob H.
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I agree, well done landscapes are always pleasing to look at. Antialiasing
would improve this image so much though. My old roommate had Bryce a couple
years back, that was fun to play with.

ross

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> Thought this turned out well considering there isn't any AA used so here
it is
> for all to see.
> Rendered in 36 minutes on my 500MHz PIII.
> It's all slope-dependant texturing used on the iso, water is separate
plane,
> along with simple sky_sphere.
> I always think of Vistapro, the terrain renderer, when I do these.
> A person could change these kinds of things forever and I'd still like
anything
> that comes of it.
>
> Bob H.
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>
>
>

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"Bob H." wrote:
> 
> Thought this turned out well considering there isn't any AA used so here it is
> for all to see.
> Rendered in 36 minutes on my 500MHz PIII.
> It's all slope-dependant texturing used on the iso, water is separate plane,
> along with simple sky_sphere.
> I always think of Vistapro, the terrain renderer, when I do these.
> A person could change these kinds of things forever and I'd still like anything
> that comes of it.

May I see the source ?
So that I can have a look at how to do such a nice scene :)

And can you please also render it with AA ?


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Excellent! I know rmf and slope-dependent textures take patience, at least with my
ability to manipulate them.

If you do do a render with aa, i would worry that a lot of detail would get washed
out, but as is it dies look grainy. Guess you'll have to render at 5000x3000 :)

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"Bob H." wrote:
> 
> Thought this turned out well considering there isn't any AA used so here it is
> for all to see.
> Rendered in 36 minutes on my 500MHz PIII.
> It's all slope-dependant texturing used on the iso, water is separate plane,
> along with simple sky_sphere.
> I always think of Vistapro, the terrain renderer, when I do these.
> A person could change these kinds of things forever and I'd still like anything
> that comes of it.
> 

I first was quite astonished about the short rendering time, but the price
for that is no aa and no radiosity.  Anyway, it looks really nice.

Christoph

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>
> May I see the source ?
> So that I can have a look at how to do such a nice scene :)
>
> And can you please also render it with AA ?

Oh, okay  ;-)  guess everyone would rather see it that way too.
I'll post the pertinent part of the scene file to povray.text.scene-files
shortly.  The AA render will be a while.

Bob H.

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Got to admit this makes the unantialiased one look bad.  It's just that sometimes AA
does a lot to make things
fuzzy and blurred, esp. when using lower screen resolutions, and I liked the better
than 20-20 vision sort of
thing.
I've recently put my screen at 1600x1200 again (probably temporarily) so the non-AA
version still looks fair.
Changed the sunlight direction for better terrain relief and shadows since that last
one.  3.5 hours to render.
Oh, and the scene file is at p.t.s-f.

Bob H.

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Apologies to those who get the long text lines in certain newsreaders, I always
forget to go back to the usual 79 character lines after posting to p.t.s-f.

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I'm not sure whether this one is better than the non-aa one.
Probably truth lies in between.

A trick that used to work quite well for me is to render
without aa but with 50% more size (each, x and y), then blur
it in Photoshop/Gimp/... (2-3 pixels) and finally scale it
down to the desired format.
This usually results in a very fine blur effect, less
than aa in the renderer, thus leaving many of the details.

-Hans-

"Bob H." wrote:
> 
> Got to admit this makes the unantialiased one look bad.  It's just that sometimes AA
does a lot to make things
> fuzzy and blurred, esp. when using lower screen resolutions, and I liked the better
than 20-20 vision sort of
> thing.
> I've recently put my screen at 1600x1200 again (probably temporarily) so the non-AA
version still looks fair.
> Changed the sunlight direction for better terrain relief and shadows since that last
one.  3.5 hours to render.
> Oh, and the scene file is at p.t.s-f.
> 
> Bob H.
> 
>  [Image]

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Better now IMO.

Making the vegetation 3-dimensional by adding it to the geometry of the
landscape would be a nice thing if you are not afraid of slow rendering.  

I posted a 2d gradient pattern some time ago that could be used for this
purpose similar to the slope pattern you used for the texture.  

Thanks for the code BTW.

Christoph

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