CompuServe Messages

Hi, Edward! >>I have seen your impressive flc and lens. How about very much more complicated objects like >>a glass of water or a glass statue? Or would these require raytracing? Thanks for compliment. Glass Statue is PIECE of CAKE for Refraction Mapping, it was actually designed for renderings of Waterly Venera sculpture. I just was lazy and did not hardwired Venera mesh into Demo version, I put Magnifying Glass instead. (i had options of Venera, walking bird, spiral and Lense, I picked Lense as a sinonym for refraction) But there is NO principal difference among the two. It will render statue perfectly and in addition you can animate it and you can even animate viewers behind the statue and they will be refracted as well… Glass of water is Really more complicated, you're right, but NOT impossible: we are talking about two refracting objects, one inside another. For current version of Refraction Mapping it is actually even 3 refracting objects: further (from the camera) half of the glass, water, and then closer half of the glass. RefrMap will still beat any raytrace hands down in speed (plus it supports animation and is true plug-in), but it may be tedious to fiddle with 3 consequtive renderings, assigning them as textures. RefrMap 1.1 will do that kind of task in one automatic run, but then you have to wait till October (or November). Glad you liked it, Alex, Video International