The Martin-Baker ejector seat was introduced to service by the R.A.F in 1947. Two years too late.
This spitfire pilot, returning home to his wife, son and 2 daughters, after a succesful mission, suffered engine failure not thirty miles from the landing strip.
Air Cheif Marshall, Winston dandelO-Smythe was never seen again. __________________________________________________________
It seems everyone here is messing around trying to create decent looking cumulus. So, here's my most recent attempt.
I have a good lot of different cloud scenes on the go just now, including: Cumulus Fractus, mammatus, towering cumulus, etc. This is the first one done and dusted.
Just a mass of rolling cumulus and a high level cirrus to break up the background sky. The plane was really just an after thought. Usually I'd stick a boat in there and be done with it in a scene like this, I toyed with that and then decided to put use to the fantastic Spitfire model that was drawn attention to here some weeks ago.
Cloud stats that were changed in the cloud layer:
Altitude - 1765
Depth - 3000
Sharpness - 25
Density - 0.006(default)
Colour - 0.175
Scattering colour - 0.5
The only lighting change is: Fake internal scattering - 1.75
The only tweaks change is: Flatter base - checked.
I use less dense cloud than most folks doing large cloud like this, this is because I like to illuminate the cloud from inside, it works better in my opinion.
Edge sharpness really makes the clouds
appear denser and this makes it easier to illuminate them than if they are really thick(and keeps samples down to reasonable detail=1 levels). I make my cloud colour about 0.1 to 0.2(not
too far from black, this one is 0.175) and then light them from the inside with propagation/envirolight/fake internal scattering enough to overpower this dark colour. This really defines the limits of the edge of the fractal, when you light it up correctly of course.
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Thanks for looking!
d
andelO.
