Hello,

The spoon for the hand grenade is almost done. The only thing left to do is
round-off two sharp corners. The fuse and spoon are supposed to be similar to
the one in this picture (without the jungle clip):

http://mysite.verizon.net/moronicon/M67Photo.jpg

The body of the grenade in this rendering is just a temporary placeholder. I'm
really debating about what type of grenade body to use - the Mk 2 ("Pineapple")
grenade looks really cool but the M61 in the photo was more widely used during
the Vietnam war, which is a sub-theme of the scene I'm working on. Sorry for
rambling...

Regards,
Dave Blandston

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"Dave Blandston" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The spoon for the hand grenade is almost done. The only thing left to do is
> round-off two sharp corners.

Wow!  That 'spoon' or handle is...amazing. It very nicely matches the 'stamped
metal' shape of the real thing. Some intricate modeling there! Congrats.

Ken

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"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> Wow!  That 'spoon' or handle is...amazing. It very nicely matches the 'stamped
> metal' shape of the real thing. Some intricate modeling there! Congrats.
>
> Ken

Hey, thanks! This has been a really fun project. The scene is almost done after
over five months of work. I guess I'm pretty slow. There's just a little more
texturing to do and some work on the body of the grenade, then as soon as the
radiosity feature in version 3.7 is fully operational I can render the final.
I'm pretty sure now I'll use the M61 grenade body instead of the Mk2. Although
the Mk2 would be fun to model for some other scene.

Regards,
Dave Blandston

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"Dave Blandston" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>> Wow!  That 'spoon' or handle is...amazing. It very nicely matches the 
>> 'stamped
>> metal' shape of the real thing. Some intricate modeling there! Congrats.
>>
>> Ken
>
> Hey, thanks! This has been a really fun project. The scene is almost done 
> after
> over five months of work. I guess I'm pretty slow. There's just a little 
> more
> texturing to do and some work on the body of the grenade, then as soon as 
> the
> radiosity feature in version 3.7 is fully operational I can render the 
> final.
> I'm pretty sure now I'll use the M61 grenade body instead of the Mk2. 
> Although
> the Mk2 would be fun to model for some other scene.
>
> Regards,
> Dave Blandston
>

I'm sure I'm not the only one that is incredibly keen to see the final image 
:)

So hurry up with 3.7 so we can all see it!!!

Cheers Dre

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Am 06.05.2010 01:11, schrieb Dre:
>> Hey, thanks! This has been a really fun project. The scene is almost done
>> after
>> over five months of work. I guess I'm pretty slow. There's just a little
>> more
>> texturing to do and some work on the body of the grenade, then as soon as
>> the
>> radiosity feature in version 3.7 is fully operational I can render the
>> final.
>> I'm pretty sure now I'll use the M61 grenade body instead of the Mk2.
>> Although
>> the Mk2 would be fun to model for some other scene.
>
> I'm sure I'm not the only one that is incredibly keen to see the final image
> :)
>
> So hurry up with 3.7 so we can all see it!!!

Hey, the radiosity feature /is/ fully operational in the current 3.7 
betas for quite some months already (except if Dave needs to use the 
abort/continue feature)...

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"clipka" <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote in message 
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> Am 06.05.2010 01:11, schrieb Dre:
>>> Hey, thanks! This has been a really fun project. The scene is almost 
>>> done
>>> after
>>> over five months of work. I guess I'm pretty slow. There's just a little
>>> more
>>> texturing to do and some work on the body of the grenade, then as soon 
>>> as
>>> the
>>> radiosity feature in version 3.7 is fully operational I can render the
>>> final.
>>> I'm pretty sure now I'll use the M61 grenade body instead of the Mk2.
>>> Although
>>> the Mk2 would be fun to model for some other scene.
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one that is incredibly keen to see the final 
>> image
>> :)
>>
>> So hurry up with 3.7 so we can all see it!!!
>
> Hey, the radiosity feature /is/ fully operational in the current 3.7 betas 
> for quite some months already (except if Dave needs to use the 
> abort/continue feature)...

Sweet, did you hear that Dave, hurry up! :)  (joking times a thousand :)

Cheers Dre

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"clipka" <ano### [at] anonymousorg> schreef in bericht 
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(except if Dave needs to use the
> abort/continue feature)...

Why? I have been using that feature all the time on one single (slow) scene 
that has been rendering now for some 80 or more cumulated hours (almost 
done) over the last month and a half, and that works fine as far as I can 
judge, even across three beta versions now.

Thomas

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Am 06.05.2010 09:59, schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> "clipka"<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  schreef in bericht
> news:4be20b8a$1@news.povray.org...
> (except if Dave needs to use the
>> abort/continue feature)...
>
> Why? I have been using that feature all the time on one single (slow) scene
> that has been rendering now for some 80 or more cumulated hours (almost
> done) over the last month and a half, and that works fine as far as I can
> judge, even across three beta versions now.

Even with radiosity?

Are you sure it is re-using previously computed radiosity samples?

Did you manually specify the "Radiosity_File_Name" ini file option?

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"clipka" <ano### [at] anonymousorg> schreef in bericht 
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>
> Even with radiosity?
>
> Are you sure it is re-using previously computed radiosity samples?
>
> Did you manually specify the "Radiosity_File_Name" ini file option?

Using radiosity, yes, but indeed, I did not save radiosity samples in the 
first place. It has just been abort/continue the render, slowly increasing 
the image over time. I was misguided by your use of abort/continue where 
abviously you also meant save/read in addition  :-)

Thomas

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"Dre" <and### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the only one that is incredibly keen to see the final image
> :)
>
> So hurry up with 3.7 so we can all see it!!!
>
> Cheers Dre

I'm glad to hear that! Thanks for the encouragement!

Regards,
Dave Blandston

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