[GRASSLIST:2570] RE: World Renders

[dylan]

at what scale would these images be?

for an entire planet, xplantet might work

for larger scales (i.e. smaller regions) POVRAY might do the trick....

and both of those are free.

dylan


on 04.2.11 3:14 PM, Matthew Gillard at mattgurugillard at hotmail.com was
reported to have writen:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:55:19PM +0200, Matt Comb wrote:
>> I am currently programming a game that requires views of the
>> world and have been trying to find some software to render
>> views of the world.
>> 
>> Unfortunatley they are all very pricing and trying to recreate
>> something that is up to date and cheap has been the challenge.
>> 
>> I am wondering if anyone could help me out by batch rendering a
>> number of views of the world if I was to supply information.
>> 
>> In return they would get a mention in the games credits.
>> 
>> P.S. The game is a large networked game, and we don't have the cpu
>> time to render on the fly, thats why the images will be prerendered.
> 
> I know it's been a while since you posted it but I'm quite keen to get into
> a new project and have some spare time at the moment. This sounds
> interesting! Do you have any screenshots of the current state of the project
> or a demo?
> 
> How much information are you expecting to have to send across the internet?
> ie. Do the rendered pictures have to be online or on the users computer?
> 
> Will the renders need to be updatable with in-game information?
> 
> Look forward to your reply
> 
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