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Lokai2000 — Forest Test II
Published: 2006-01-31 23:07:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1772; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 128
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This piece wasn't meant to be serious in any capacity. However, I've been so excited about this project I wanted to share it with everyone. This scene is the result of the forest generator code I've been working on. I'm very happy with the results so far. These scenes are quite complex and take some time to render!
I hope to eventually add terain variations and the ability to specify clearings and/or foliage maps.
Scene was rendered in Povray 3.6. This scene contains ~5000 plants and took about 18 hours to render.
The first forest scene I attempted to render is still running and will probably set some all-time personal records for the longest render I've ever done.
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Five thousand plants ?? Whoa!
Is this the Golmore jungle ?
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Nope, this piece was made a *long* time before FFXII came to the states.
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very cool
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Nope, it's not entirely random.
It is a fractal like algorithm that continues to pack in smaller and smaller plants around the larger ones. I haven't worked out how to get the smaller plants closer to the tree roots yet.
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Looks pretty good and different, in the sense that I could not identify the trees from any veggie generator proggy I know of.
So you created one tree and then scattered/rotated it over the terrain? That would save a lot of memory because POVRay would only keep 1 tree in memory. ^^
Awesome job and good to see people are still using POVRay after all these years. ^_^
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Bingo! The code just generate the type, position, and location. All the objects are loaded into memory just once.
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I wish Poser would do that too, since if I use 10 Aikos like different characters, it should keep only one in memory...
This alone would probably fix half of Poser's memory problems.
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This is really amazing. You're a genius, aren't you? Does your code make all these plants? You ever post on the POV-Ray newsgroups? I bet they'd LOVE this one! Its very impressive.
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Nope, it doesn't make the plants. It only selects them from a database. (Although, I always had a dream of using Lparser to make the plants....)
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Lparser - looks pretty wild... would make a really weird forest.
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Yay that's cool! There is even an old man in the rocks a the left! 
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Heh, heh, maybe I should start a "Where's Waldo?" series.
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VVVVVVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvery nice, indeed.
Love it.
Now if only some a genius at Intel, or some supposed "advanced" processor chip manufactor could develope a chip to render this in .5 micro-seconds, then I'd be truly impressed with our so called "high tech" computers...
Until then...we are slaves to the machine.
Again, spectacular work.
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That looks really good
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oooooo I'm pretty sure poser couldn't even render this.
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That looks amazing!
Is that a face I see to the left?
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that sounds SO complicated!!! i dunno the process, but the effect is FANTABULOUS!
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Oh.... you have no idea.....
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nice work
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Yep, It's a freely available raytracer. You can check it out at... [link]
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