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Re: Colonial Viper
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Mon, 23 Aug 1999 02:55:21 GMT
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Daren <darens42@wans.net> writes:
> Bram -
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> I just saw your Colonial Viper - It looks way cool.
Thanks!
> I have one question though...
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> I've just started playing around with POV-ray - how do you add such
> cool backgrounds to your picture?
For the starry backgrounds I used the "Galaxy" library (I think it's
called a library, maybe plug-in is a better term). I don't have the URL
handy, but I'm sure someone can tell you where to find all the cool
libraries for POV-Ray. The Galaxy library has all sorts of nifty
galactic objects to choose from in creating your own universe, but I
haven't played much with that. I just took the easy way out:
add these two lines of code to your POV file:
#declare galaxy_seed = 999; // or any other number.
#include "galaxy.inc" // 999 is what I used in the first three
pics.
The planetary scene was created using a height_field (make sure you scale
it correctly--my first mountains were upside-down :) For the
height_field source I blurred a black&white image of clouds to create the
smooth dune-like mountains. The plane on which the Viper rests has
normal { bumps .5 scale 50 }
added to it to add some variation in color.
The Viper was put into the scene last. First, I took the object, camera,
and light_source declarations out of the viper POV file and renamed it as
an .inc file[1]. Then I found a nice camera angle for my mountains (in a
different file). Finally, I took the object declaration from the Viper
POV file and pasted it into the scenery file. A little scaling and
translating helped fit the Viper perfectly into the scenery.
I hope that's not too much to take in all at once. The starry scenes
were very easy, but the mountain scene took a little more work.
--Bram
1) Actually, I also replaced all the color declarations in the L3P'd POV
file of the Viper with colors from Anton Raves' materials.lib file.
Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
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