Observatory

[Ardos]

Here’s my latest construction, an observatory located on the new world of Threed.

[James]

Cool. Now just need to add some lens blocks.

[Umajianu]

Please do this. Making telescopes and optical illusions in structures through lenses would be amazing. While on the subject, perhaps mirrors?

[James]

Ouch – could be expensive to render – especially the mirrors.

[Umajianu]

Just thinking about how that would have to be coded and then how it would tax the machines made me cringe a bit. It is a nice concept, but would be awful to implement, so I completely understand.

Thank you for even considering it momentarily, though!

[Ardos]

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not an expert in matters like this but how would mirrors be drastically different from water causing reflections?

[James]

Exactly – and the reflects are expensive.

So instead of one “mirror” for the reflections, we’d be doing N renders for all the mirrors.

[Ardos]

Oh I didn’t think the water reflections were that intensive. I said I wasn’t an expert!!! Thanks for the clarification.

[PaddoSwam]

Why would it be expensive? Water has constant changing/morphing reflection and this could be ‘static’? That shouldn’t be too expensive in terms rendering power.

The portals aren’t ‘too’ expensive either since you either see a very narrow part of the other world or a very little part of your current world.

[Ardos]

Yeah I was thinking that but I think I’d need them to be sloping for it to look tidier. I’ll have a play around when I’ve got a bit of spare time.

[langel]

Cool construction bro

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