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Posted by Ceciliabr at Jun 26, 2018, 1:44:36 PM
Re: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...
@Xiste

Thank you!

My question is, did you make the water with SH3D

The water is a height-field terrain textured with a semitransparent light grey texture. I have done some experiments, and so far I have found that using a wave height of about 25 - 35 cm and placing a glass transparent directly under it, I can create some illusion of a reflecting water surface, but I'm still experimenting with that and might come up with something better.

(...)or have you switched to the Tea renderer like Martin?

The answer is no, for two reasons:
One being that I like the Sunflow renderer, and I like the challenges it presents me with,
the other being that I have other 3D programs and can easily export my SH3D-projects and render them there. I have no need for Thea.

Besides, the way I see it, this forum is for the SH3D / Sunflow configuration, and that's the combination I will stick to on this forun; showing what I can do with this combination.
What I can create and render with f.i. a $2000 professional software package like Wue xStream, is really not relevant.

Here is one of my Vue illustrations, just to visualize the difference:

1920 x 1080


Cec