"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> "Stephen" <mcavoys_AT_aolDOT.com> wrote:
>
> >

> > realistic. It looks like hydrocarbons flaring off. The burning town is so

> >
> Thanks!! (And I like that description--'flaring hydrocarbons'. Great!)


flares. I made it my job to tell someone if they went out.

> The "halo" above the rising gasoline fire in the center is one of the few
> things in the scene that's not 3-D. I didn't want to use media to get that
> effect, so I rendered the 3-D gas fire just by itself, against blue (like a
> bluescreen), then took that into Photoshop, made high-contrast B&W artwork
> of it, blurred that, turned it into an alpha-channel, then re-applied it in
> POV-Ray to a thin box, as an image_map.  The box is placed behind
> the real gas fire in the scene, and lit only with colored ambient light.
> Kind of a cheat, eh? :-)

Post a reply to this message