I must have had it running a dozen times as
background noise (I hate silence -- ex-civil servant)
and for the first time saw its graphics. Everything of
real interest is CGI. But not good CGI but a preview of
the next generation of the same effects.

    It is mostly as bad as Star Wars the First but
shows all the signs of the potential for becoming an
order of magnitude better in the next movie.

    And if you don't mind my saying, this is the
interim step to "who needs actors?" movie. Don't just
have it on, watch it. All the Holllywood about renting
the plane and painting it is BS.

    The problems beyond rendering the fighters were the
20-30g turns they made. A modicum of realism please.

    Most of the scenes are above the clouds and I I
have rarely seen worse clouds here. Generically any
still would be below average on IRTC. Together they
make a $300M+ movie.

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Matt Giwer wrote:

>     And if you don't mind my saying, this is the
> interim step to "who needs actors?" movie. Don't just
> have it on, watch it. All the Holllywood about renting
> the plane and painting it is BS.

Well, I think they might have rented and painted a B-747
for some shots, because the real Air Force One has a
wart on its nose and some other more subtle differences
that the aircraft in the movie didn't have:
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/af1/images/af101.htm
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I would sure like to see a Pov-Ray generated movie. Something like the
"Veggie Tales" series wouldn't be too hard to do in Pov! :)

Has anyone thought about this?

Grim

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Yes, I believe so - there has been one Pov-Ray movie project that I know
of directly (I think I've heard of 1 or 2 others, as well), but I have not
heard the latest on any of them - haven't visited the sight in some time
though. I would imagine a project like that must take time and very
precise, intracate work (Pov-Ray is wonderful, but it's system of
animation is not the best, but it can be done).

Tim Sodrstrom
PsiTron / TigerHawk

GrimDude wrote:

> I would sure like to see a Pov-Ray generated movie. Something like the
> "Veggie Tales" series wouldn't be too hard to do in Pov! :)
>
> Has anyone thought about this?
>
> Grim

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GrimDude wrote:
> 
> I would sure like to see a Pov-Ray generated movie. 

Come over to my house.  I run POV-Ray movies all da time.
640x480 MPEG-1 through a Netstream MPEG decoder with two outputs;
15" Office TV (i gotta remember to stop using (pigment {Red} == SATURATED))
24" Monitor (1920x1200) with the movie doubled up to 1280x960.

I have a one minute short "Through the eyes of a child" and my new one...

> Something like the
> "Veggie Tales" series wouldn't be too hard to do in Pov! :)

"Reefer Magnets" - The story of a boy and his beer.  Which has some shades
of Veggie Tales in it (well a piece of brocolli anyway)

+++
I just finished adding png support to mpeg_encode, which i believe is much better 
than cmpeg.  I'll probably release it after i convert the postscript docs to
some DosHead format (html?).

I'm having shit luck getting mpeg2_encode to work (which i want to try to press DVD 
readable CDs).  I keep having this out-of-body mobious strip experience where i dream
i can feed pov pics as a video signal to my awesome mpeg2 hardware video encoder.  
But then, that would be an mpeg2 signal eh?

With mpeg2_encode, i keep getting buffer underruns during high motion frames
(i.e. move the camera).  I did get a "correct" mpeg-1 out of it that was BIG and
sloppy (lots of quantized macroblocks = low res)

Hmm, it just occurred to me that i've never tried taping an MPEG-1 even though
my VCR is the video switch to my TV. Doh!

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Go to www.imp.org. It is the Internet Movie Project and is based
on POV. 


GrimDude wrote:
> 
> I would sure like to see a Pov-Ray generated movie. Something like the
> "Veggie Tales" series wouldn't be too hard to do in Pov! :)
> 
> Has anyone thought about this?
> 
> Grim

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