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"Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> > Isn't it extremely slow to render? How about making each brick a
> > similarly-generated heightfield instead? (I know that you can't achieve
> > the *exact* same level of detain with heightfields, but for bricks I
> > don't think it matters, unless you intend to look them from *really*
> > close.)
>
> The last time I tried doing large walls with height-fields, it was very
> slow and sometimes I couldn't render because of not enough memory. But
> then it was on a smaller computer than I have now. Also the bricks didn't
> look as nice...
>
> Currently I tried making simple bricks with triangles using the same
> method for placing the bricks with very interesting results:
> The triangles rendered slower than the isosurface bricks - about 30%
> slower! This was using 3.7 beta 36. I haven't tested on version 3.62
I wrote some mesh-weathering macros which can create bricks using the same
technique. Walls like this rendered with my macros render something like 10x
faster than using isosurfaces, although as you say there can be a large memory
hit if you want close-up detail. You only need to declar a small number of
different brick meshes in an array, however, then just pick, rotate and texture
them randomly when placing them.
This image contains less than 10 individual meshes for the stonework (not
including the statue):
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.49c00fd346c868fb219167190@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=331089&t
off=300
Bill
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> This image contains less than 10 individual meshes for the stonework (not
> including the statue):
Hmm, didn't appear. Let's try again:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.49c00fd346c868fb219167190@news.povray.org%3E/
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > This image contains less than 10 individual meshes for the stonework (not
> > including the statue):
> Hmm, didn't appear. Let's try again:
Still can't see it, but it did appear in the reply...
How about a linefeed halfway through?
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread
/%3Cweb.49c00fd346c868fb219167190@news.povray.org%3E/
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:21:57 +0200, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> > This image contains less than 10 individual meshes for the stonework
>> (not
>> > including the statue):
>> Hmm, didn't appear. Let's try again:
>
> Still can't see it, but it did appear in the reply...
> How about a linefeed halfway through?
>
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread
> /%3Cweb.49c00fd346c868fb219167190@news.povray.org%3E/
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>
The first 2 showed up fine in Opera...
I'm not sure where to find the code though...
-Nekar Xenos-
--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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"Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> The first 2 showed up fine in Opera...
Don't know what my firefox is playing at then :)
> I'm not sure where to find the code though...
Sorry, should have said... it's in the object collection
http://lib.povray.org/searchcollection/index2.php?objectName=meshrelief&version=1.0&contributorTag=Bill
Bill
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:49:08 +0200, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> The first 2 showed up fine in Opera...
>
> Don't know what my firefox is playing at then :)
>
>> I'm not sure where to find the code though...
>
> Sorry, should have said... it's in the object collection
>
>
http://lib.povray.org/searchcollection/index2.php?objectName=meshrelief&version=1.0&contributorTag=Bill
>
> Bill
>
>
Thanks. I'll take a look at it.
-Nekar Xenos-
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Still can't see it, but it did appear in the reply...
FWIW, many mail agents will avoid breaking a link if you put <> around it.
<http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.49c00fd346c868fb219167190@news.povray.org%3E/>
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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> "Bill Pragnell"<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> This image contains less than 10 individual meshes for the stonework (not
>> including the statue):
>
> Hmm, didn't appear. Let's try again:
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.49c00fd346c868fb219167190@news.povray.org%3E/
>
>
>
First time worked OK using Thunderbird and Firefox.
Alain
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Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:
> > Hmm, didn't appear. Let's try again:
> First time worked OK using Thunderbird and Firefox.
Weird. All I saw was a blank line. Oh well, as long as it worked for everyone
else. :)
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Still can't see it, but it did appear in the reply...
Same at my end, using Firefox on Windows XP.
Ken
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