POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Specularity mapping : Re: Specularity mapping Server Time
13 Aug 2024 15:22:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Specularity mapping  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 18 Aug 1998 16:52:28
Message: <35d9db7c.0@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:43:40 -0400, Tim Glover <tgl### [at] nettallycom> wrote:
>I did read the FINE manual.  POVRAY doesn't support specularity based on
>an image map as it does support normal perturbation based on a (bump)
>image map.  

You are correct.  For some reason, I had assumed that image_map could be
used wherever any other pattern type could.  I wonder why not.  It looks like
your best bet is a material map, though I'm not sure if it will work in your
specific application.


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