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Sea in a box
Like Horo I too have been playing with mirrors - quite independantly as it happens. So here is a terrain, a large one, inside a large open topped mirrored box with a volume cloud, two barrels of bryce disc2 and a Noggins poseable Crow thrown in for good measure. The sun is positioned not where it appears (we are in a box afterall) but a very bright lightsource gives the illusion and a bit of lensflair is thrown in for good measure. Finished HL2 on medium - next hard - but better get some work done first!
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wow! This is real... down to the last ripple on the water. I really appriciate the trick with mirrors, as I have tried to preform this trick on many occasions without sucess. The only problems I have are the four barrels at the right would not occur so close to each other in life. Also, what would a crow be doing in the middle of the ocean? I'd replace it with a seagull.
Water water Well, I've never seen wave race, but I have heard of a Nintendo 64 so that's a start. Hiding the fact that it is a box is all down to increasing the ray depth and setting up the lighting. Leaving the top of the box open (I used slope controll in the material or you could use seperate boxes for walls) lets the light in but supplimentrary lighting is advisable. The water terrain is 512x512 resolution and I used a rolling hills procedureal fractal - by keeping the terrain relitively small and wide angle on the camera and using the mirrors... and a ray depth of 12, that gives (reaches for his calculator)... 6144x6144 virtual terrain size, which might explain why the water appears to be high resolution. The material applied is a variation of the waterfall material posted both here and on my website. So there you go. Cheers.
Sea Very good waves, particularly the reflecting ones. The horizontal dark division looks a bit odd. Wouldn't have guessed sitting in a mirrored box. Very interesting idea -- makes me want to try such a setup too. Never occured to me to leave a part of the box open.
amazing Could never tell it was a box... Great work, I feel like ... wave race! =) For Nintendo 64.. old skewl.