Rick Gutleber <ric### [at] hiscom> wrote:
> bluetree wrote:
> >
> > Wow the pictures look nice.
> > Do you also plan to model spaceships belonging to it?
>
> It would be nice.  I have a small fighter-type spaceship, but nothing else.

So you almost finished modelling for a very good scene? You have just to build
some transporters? ;-)

> > Can these light spots glow in the dark?
>
> Yes, they are all ambient textures.  They are not actual light sources
> though.
>
> > A lot of details and these antennas. :-)
>
> Yes, there is a lot of detail.  The whole thing is generated by a
> program, so I can modify quite a few parameters, and I end up with
> about 500000 lines of include files to feed into POV-Ray.  That render
> took about an hour.  I'm sure there are ways I could speed it up.
>
> Interestingly, I threw it into the POV-Ray 3.7 beta but it was rendering
> about 10x _slower_.  I have no idea why.

10 HOURS? Whew. And you used the same settings both times?
That's a difference.
You can only change very few parameters, because it is function based?

Regards
                     bluetree

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