I read somewhere that they used POV-Ray to make some parts of Star Wars
Episode 1. Is this true or is it just wishful thinking?

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Mahalis wrote:
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> I read somewhere that they used POV-Ray to make some parts of Star Wars
> Episode 1. Is this true or is it just wishful thinking?

Just wishful thinking.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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I have the DVD and haven't seen POV mentioned in the extras.
The 1700-2000 SFX shots pushed ILM to the limits and I
imagine they used every trick to speed the production.
Somehow I don't see how POV would fit in there :)

POV is great for still images but animating a scene with
any real complexity (meshes) is not feasible.

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Kari Kivisalo

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Kari Kivisalo <ray### [at] engineercom> wrote:
: POV is great for still images but animating a scene with
: any real complexity (meshes) is not feasible.

  Why not? POV-Ray renders meshes extraordinarily fast.

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rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
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7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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On 22 Oct 2001 02:40:12 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>Kari Kivisalo <ray### [at] engineercom> wrote:
>: POV is great for still images but animating a scene with
>: any real complexity (meshes) is not feasible.
>
>  Why not? POV-Ray renders meshes extraordinarily fast.

Parsing is the key in this case, I think.


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Peter Popov <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote:
: Parsing is the key in this case, I think.

  I think that a mesh2 parses quite fast.

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rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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Warp wrote:

> Kari Kivisalo <ray### [at] engineercom> wrote:
> : POV is great for still images but animating a scene with
> : any real complexity (meshes) is not feasible.
> 
>   Why not? POV-Ray renders meshes extraordinarily fast.
> 


I might be wrong, but I think Kari was refering to the animation (e.g. 
deformation) of meshes that is still hard to do in POV, whereas most 
commercial packages have routines that take care of this automatically.

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"Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote in message
news:3BD### [at] videotronca...
>

Well, it's possible that some of the background details might have been modelled
in pov and made their way into the film, and such minor details might not have
earned a credit.

Presumably, as time is of the essence, sfx makers aren't averse to a bit of
scavenging. I'm SURE I saw someone in the pod-race crowd holding my teacup...

(we can dream, can't we?).

BTW the crowd scenes at the pod race (i.e. the audiences in the stadium) were
not rendered. They were coloured q-tips poking up, with the bulk of the q-tip
underneath. Someone wiggled them to create nice crowd movements....

A bit insulting to think q-tip manafacturers had a closer assoc. with SW than
the massed ranks of pov... (well, maybe not - SWEP1 stunk...)

f-ups set... (IMHO)

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Not that I'm aware of....

...but on a slightly different note there is a POV-Ray Star Wars website
featuring X-Wing, Millenium Falcon, Tie Fighters and many other models in
POV format. It looks like this site hasn't been updated for a while as some
of the models are are in POV 3.0 format.

Also on a SW Episode 1 note...
Someone has done a Naboo fighter ship in Moray and I have also seen some
images on this server featuring other models from SW Episode 1.

Does anyone know of any other Star Wars/POV related resources?

Reuben
doo### [at] breathemailnet



Mahalis <don### [at] fakeycom> wrote in message
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> I read somewhere that they used POV-Ray to make some parts of Star Wars
> Episode 1. Is this true or is it just wishful thinking?
>
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> file://Mahalis
> camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare
T=texture{pigment{crackle
> scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
> rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
> c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
> merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
> cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
> cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:56:31 -0000, Reuben Pearse wrote...
> Not that I'm aware of....
> 
> ...but on a slightly different note there is a POV-Ray Star Wars website
> featuring X-Wing, Millenium Falcon, Tie Fighters and many other models in
> POV format. It looks like this site hasn't been updated for a while as some
> of the models are are in POV 3.0 format.
> 
> Also on a SW Episode 1 note...
> Someone has done a Naboo fighter ship in Moray and I have also seen some
> images on this server featuring other models from SW Episode 1.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other Star Wars/POV related resources?

Subject: xwing actually in a scene
From: ryan constantine <rco### [at] yahoocom>
Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:26:45 -0700
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Ryan spent far too much time and effort on a Moray X-Wing...  :)

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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