POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Grass sphere progress : Re: Grass sphere progress Server Time
1 Aug 2024 10:18:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Grass sphere progress  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 13 Aug 2008 07:35:00
Message: <web.48a2c60ba61b22c2d5b77e4a0@news.povray.org>
stbenge <THI### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > Not a finished image yet, but some development on the grassy sphere. Rendering
> > grass is quite interesting; placement algorithms seem to be far more important
> > than the actual grass geometry... this rendered in 4+ hours (AA with radiosity
> > really hammers it).
> >
> > Bill
>
> Looks good, but 4+ hours! Yikes! Have you tried Blender for this sort of
> thing? :)

Yikes indeed, but it's not a top-end machine. It renders in about 4 minutes
without the radiosity or AA. I've not really used Blender for anything, and
when I do I'll need to take a good run at it, to judge from opinions here!


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