
"Planet Gardenia" 
arvids-gardenia.mjw (~574 kb)
 2003 Arvid W. Forsberg
arvid@intelligent-light.com

Requirements:
Pandromeda MojoWorld 2.0
A good 3D-graphics card
A fast CPU
A lot of RAM

Hello and thank you for downloading planet Gardenia. This is the challenge planet #81 and it was released on June 1st 2003. My images rendered from this planet are: Planet Gardenia, Planet Gardenia II and Planet Gardenia III - all found on both 3DCommune.com and Renderosity.com.

This planet renders fairly fast and is mostly built of Gradient Perlin. There is only one cloudlayer on this planet and that is the Dragon Clouds. I added three sliders for your pleasure. If you want the dragon clouds to glow, just crank up the sun intensity.

I have also left my 7 cameras in the scene so you can see my secret locations. The default-view is Mystic Canyon; which is my favourite. It would be a lot of fun if the Mojonauts could find more beautiful canyons on Gardenia! I have rendered most of my views from high altitude (around 60 km) but I have tested it all the way down to 70 m AGL and that works fine too.

If the camera cuts off too much geometry in the views - after you have loaded the planet - just press fly mode and then press walk mode and you should be all right.

For renders above 1024x768 on this planet I usually render in detail 5-6 and antialias 6 to give the detailed areas even more detail. Recommended postwork on this planet are levels, colour saturation and unsharp mask.

I hope that I didn't forget anything - this is my first challenge planet...
Have fun exploring and please don't hesitate to email me feeback.

//Arvid