I want the sky, the birds are too randomly distributed...ever see a
few thousand vultures circling over somthing in the distance?  That's
an impressive sight, and might be something to try here...

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(not meant for the current IRTC round because it's not a real place
>

SO?  Why not?  I like it.

Robert J Becraft
aka cas### [at] aolcom

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I think the birds are perfect this way. I've seen birds doing exactly this
just before the weather is going to change or at the beginning of the
evening. I don't like the woman. Maybe I've seen too many Poser women
lately at this group :) What about putting an old bearded man with a hat on
top of the rock?

Regards,
Apache

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Very very nice!

Andrew.

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I'd vote for it...
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"Robert J Becraft" <cas### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> SO?  Why not?  I like it.
>
> Robert J Becraft
> aka cas### [at] aolcom

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3db7072b@news.povray.org...
> This is the final version of my landscape project (not meant for the
current
> IRTC round because it's not a real place).

Great image. I'd change the poser woman with a bear or a wolf
(you can find free models at renderosity, at least a morph to change
the poser dog into a wolf and image maps), but if you like it that way,
it's OK.

That was optional, this is mandatory: Send it to the IRTC ;-)

Bye

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Hi,
great picture. I'm interested by the isosurface rock.
I've done some trials, but with poor results for both shape and texture.

> I replaced the mesh rock with an isosurface rock (thanks to Slime and Mick
> Hazelgrove for their very helpfull suggestions to the WIP post of this).
The
> trees are modified oak trees from Stephen Dartnall's Forester Arboretrum.

What is this arboretum?

> The drawback of the combination of isosurface rock, media sky and
radiosity
> is rendering time: the scene took allmost  40 hours to render at 1024x768
on
> my 1.7 GHz P4. Hope it was worth the electricity costs ...
> Regards, Christoph

I saved your picture.

Chaps

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Christoph Gerber wrote:
> 
> This is the final version of my landscape project (not meant for the current
> IRTC round because it's not a real place).

You are not going to submit it?

I would really consider it.  The fact that it's not a real place is no
argument IMO, a lot of others won't be either and why does a 'spectacular
landscape' have to be real?

> [...]
> The drawback of the combination of isosurface rock, media sky and radiosity
> is rendering time: the scene took allmost  40 hours to render at 1024x768 on
> my 1.7 GHz P4. 

I don't see much from the radiosity, you could probably have achieved the
same or better effect with a fill light, at least for the rock.

> Hope it was worth the electricity costs ...

What a luck i don't have to pay per kWh...

Christoph

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First of all - thanks every body for your kind comments. I just uploaded the
(partial) source code to p.b.s.-f. Hope you will find it useful. Trying to
give an answer to a few of the questions:
- You can find Forester and Forester Arboretrum here
http://www.dartnall.f9.co.uk/. Trees made with
   Forester Arboretrum consist of min. 2 mesh objects, one for the leaves
and some for stem and branches,
   depending of the level of detail (iteration level). The meshes are
uv-mapped, so you can use scans of real
   leaves as textures if you like.
- The code for the isosurface rock is derived from awStoneBlockMacs2.inc by
the autowitch (aka d. gold),
  which was posted to p.b.s.-f. back in 2000. Its basically an isosurface
superellipsoid with a pigment
  function added (wrinkles in my case).
- The rock is about 5 tree heights high indeed. The way the scene is set up
now there are no trees
  very close to the rock. I will try this.
- As for the poser woman, I wanted to add a figure on the top of the rock
and I had this one from an
  old scene. Just lazy ... I like the idea with the wolf however.
Regards,Christoph

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This reminds me of Petite Jean Park in Arkansas. This would be the
hilltop where she is buried.

Grim

Christoph Gerber wrote:
> This is the final version of my landscape project (not meant for the
> current IRTC round because it's not a real place).
> I replaced the mesh rock with an isosurface rock (thanks to Slime and
> Mick Hazelgrove for their very helpfull suggestions to the WIP post
> of this). The trees are modified oak trees from Stephen Dartnall's
> Forester Arboretrum. The drawback of the combination of isosurface
> rock, media sky and radiosity is rendering time: the scene took
> allmost  40 hours to render at 1024x768 on my 1.7 GHz P4. Hope it was
> worth the electricity costs ... Regards, Christoph

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