About this entry:
I did not changed the original model except exchanging the pneumatic T-piece part 4697 (?) with
the available 4696.dat. The pov-file was created with LPub using the LGEO-library. My main idea
was to enlight the laser beams and the monitor and have a dramatic effect with a high camera
angle (now 112 degree). The special steps were:
- Using radiosity in a normal way.
- Set the ambient value of the trans-red colour to 2.5 to have a glowing effect.
- Set also the ambient value of the green colour (part of the monitor pattern) to 5.
- Used the mesh enhancer to enhance the meshes.
- Since the mesh enhancing of the 2x1 monitor piece lead to errors, I used the unenhaced definition
of this part (3004PC0.dat) from the originally created pov-file.
- Placed two light sources (spotlight type) near the top lights (not seen in my picture)
- Set the no_shadow definition in the povray object definition of the sensor beams to prevent the
beams creating a stupid shadow.
- placing another green spotlight in front of the monitor piece to simulate the light from the monitor.
- Using focal blur without a special reason.
The spotlights are all ambient lights and have a fade_power of 3. The fade_distance value was tuned
with try and error.
The final rendering was done with POV-ray 3.6 with high quality (+Q11) and Anti-Aliasing (AA0.3) to
the size of 1024x768. For the entry the picture was reduced to 800x600 and saved as jpg-file with gimp.
Many thanks
Andreas
