Well, good evening (23:59) I wanted to ask all of you (or those who have seen Stonehenge) for some help. I wanted to make it in poser, and remebered an old tutorial in Computer Arts, where they used Stonehenge to do some movie. So after looking for a Stonehenge model for some time I looked at their homepage and guess what... ok you are right, they had it (for free) but after looking at some pic, I can see that most of it is fallen a part (I guess it is getting old : I wan't to make it look like new or at least in one piece. Any help is welcome, fx. are the outer stones the biggest or bigger than the inner? Any texture help is welcome to, been looking at some stone tex but I still don't know. For those who like the model you can download it at www.computerarts.co.uk under Tutorials/3D and Animation. The tut is called 3D camera techniques.

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Not sure if I understand this but you want to make a Stonhendge scene with stonehendge as it was in it's glory days? In that case... you got it right there. Stonehendge as it is now, is in a much further state of colapse then pictured on that model. In fact the outer rings aren't upright anymore. Keep in mind Stonehendge (and many sites like it) have evolved over several hundereths of years, starting out from a simple circle of dirt (ditch). http://www.dreamandtravel.com/london/2.html http://www.dreamandtravel.com/london/3.html

yeah u got it right.. thanks

There is a Sonehenge 3D replica in Wahington (state) on the north shore of the mighty Columbia River. I don't recall the town or county. East of Portland. It is a scale model built outa concrete by some rich guy to honor the dead soldiers in WW One from Washington. Really cool! You can walk around in it for free and thus get an idea of the scale and some magnitude. Past just getting there, the original on the Salisbury Plain is not always accesible I hear and is in quite a state of decay. For those of you all in the USA, the one in Wash. is a reasonable alternative. Read the novel SARUM by Edward Rutherford. There is a lengthy section about the building of Stonehenge from a young mason's POV.

Attached Link: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/OVERhenges.html

America has more than one Stonehenge alternative! We also have "Carhenge" and one at a university back east which keeps accurate time. www.roadsideamerica.com reviews places like this from the perspective of a weary traveler looking for a bit of amusement or inspiration. They also give travel directions and hints as to local food and manners. Back to the original queries... a fairly accurate model "as built" would be great. There were 2 types of stone used, so you'd need at least 2 textures. The 56 "aubrey holes" (usable to determine eclipses) shouldn't be filled in with anything but chalk. The heel stone ought to be a separate prop with instructions for placement in case people use their own landscapes... or you can build the land with moat and processional way all neat and tidy. You are also working with a couple of the archeoastrological books? They have nice top-down maps. Carolly

If anyone actually wants photos of the original Stonehenge in its current state, I can pop down the road and take some, I live pretty close. It's not possible to get right up to the stones- they've got barriers up to keep people back in an attempt to stop them degenerating so fast- but if you know which road to sit on with a telephoto lens it's still possible to capture it from most angles. I can also do you a general 'in situ' shot so you can see how it fits into the surrounding landscape. There are several outlying mounds associated with the site that aren't usually included in photos. If you want a truly impressive stone circle, however, don't pick Stonehenge, pick Avebury. That place is so big there's a village in the middle of it!