I loved your vid! I'm just getting started in POV - I'm learning it for my
job - and stuff like yours makes me want to make things for the fun, rather
than the money.

Any way, i was wondering if it would be possible for me to get that pigment?
I'm doing a solar system image right nw, and I can't seem to find a good way
to add the asteroid belt.
Thanks!
OpalPlanet


"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
> "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
> news:3ebc0cbe@news.povray.org...
> > One thing that's been puzzling me for quite a while: How many
> > particles form the planet's rings at 1:30, and how long did it
> > take to render?
>
> none! :)
>
> It's a trick. The rings of the planet are completely flat and textured with a
> very complicated pigment I dreamt up. It's based on pov's crackle function, with
> a slight noise pattern layered over it. That is used to cut out the silhouette
> of the rocks (so there's see thru bits and solid bits). Then the "lighting" on
> the rocks is faked by using the same pattern in a function, but computing very
> simple lighting as if it was a bump map. I would use a real bump map but that
> renders much slower than my trick. All of this means the rings render in just a
> few seconds per frame.
>
> The same pattern is used as the backdrop to the sequence inside the asteroid
> field, meaning that I only needed about 20 3D asteroids, and the rest are flat
> ones on the sky sphere. If you look closely you'll see none of them are moving
> :)
>
> > (2nd place! Woohoo too... :-)
>
> Congratulations! Your entry was my favourite :)
>
> > My opinion is that it's especially the "negative" comments that
> > help with improvement.
>
> I agree, except that I always feel kinda down if all I get are negative
> comments! I feel a bit mean, always finding some fault in other people's scenes,
> so I try to give some positive and some negative.
>
> BTW, sorry I couldn't think of anything much to say on your one! I was feeling a
> little uninspired. To rectify, I'll comment a bit more here, but I'll avoid
> saying stuff others have said:
>
> The camera movement seems a little excessive, it's like the Matrix at times but
> that seems out of place when it's not used in an action scene. A trick I think
> works well is to think about how you could move the camera if you were actually
> there shooting a movie with real cameras, because people are used to seeing
> footage filmed in that way.
>
> The editing is generally good but gets a bit quick in the desert sequence. I
> would expect to get lots of much longer shots emphasizing the heat and weariness
> of those scenes, but instead they're shown almost as a montage. A classic shot
> pointing towards the sun would be nice (i.e. with just the sun in the centre of
> the frame), it's a bit cliched but it works.
>
> And one other thought: why are your characters a big cat-woman and some girl
> with wings? Maybe I missed an earlier episode where this was explained, but they
> look kinda like someone's just taken a model of a nude and decided to mess
> around and see what happens. I'm pretty sure that isn't the case 'cause the
> cat's face is really detailed, but I'm curious about that choice of character.
>
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

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