[GRASSLIST:2844] RE: World Renders

[dylan at iici.no-ip.org]

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:56:25PM -0800, dylan wrote:
>> 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....
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> Here a quick example for POVRAY: SRTM and LANDSAT7
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>  http://mpa.itc.it/rs/srtm/index.html
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> Markus
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here is another example using POVRAY with USGS and Digital Soil Survey Data
http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/gis/

please keep in mind that this is all experimental stuff.

dylan

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