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Re: LDraw files for Large models/scenes?
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:50:44 GMT
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> Aah! Mr. Goldman's stuff, yes.
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> Well, I kinda figured out that needed something like that, but you've just hit
> the same wall that I did, when I'd finished those mocs: None of those
> architecture guys seem to be interested in modelling their works. Kinda
> understandable, kinda odd...
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> So I thought you could draw a little inspiration from my sollution: Scaling up
> some micro architecture: it's faster than creating something in minifig scale,
> and much more pleasant to render.
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> I hit some odd "maxtrace-something reached" errors with the second scene
> (Hearse), because I scaled every one of the micro cars up 4 times from the same
> 1:1 submodel.
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> It also seem like you can have no more than 50 submodels without experiencing
> odd errors whith duplicated sections at odd angles (I tried that with the
> Hoverbus scene).
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> But I'm still on POV 3.5 so some of these things might be fixed in newer
> versions.
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> Hope that was a little more helpful
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> -NB
One possibility would be to make the 'background' town and render it with a
spherical camera (angle 180,90 IIRC). This can be saved and then mapped onto the
sky_sphere (or a smaller encompassing sphere) and used as the background for
scenes. I haven't tried it but it is a trick I've seen used by some POV people.
The latest version of MegaPOV also has HDR support so that the backgrounds can
shed light as well as contributing pixels. This would seriously reduce the
amount of calculation required for a scene since you can render the whole
background scene once and then reuse it in all subsequent renders.
See http://megapov.inetart.net/manual-1.2.1/patterns.html#hdr and
http://www.debevec.org/Probes/ for further information.
Tim
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