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  Re: help w/ creating a hill  
From: Gordon
Date: 28 Mar 1999 07:37:54
Message: <36fe22a2.0@news.povray.org>
William Drown wrote in message <36FDA370.E90E076F@lamere.net>...
>Hello.
>  I am creating a scene w/ a castle on top of a hill and surrounded by a
>wall at the bottom. The hill consists of a merge csg consisting of the
>following component:
>       1 box that forms the top and main body of the hill
>        4 cones, 1 centered on each corner, w/ 0 radius on top
>        An inclined plane on each side to fill in the gaps
>I need help creating the inclined plane. I already put together the box
>w/ the cones, and the basic picture is already looking good. When I
>tried a prism object, w/ linear splines, it came out awful. I checked
>the docs for anything creating an inclined plane or wedge shape, but I
>can't find anything that does what i want. Please help me find a
>solution, cause it is very aggravating to be so close and yet so far.
>
>                    Bill Drown
>

If all you want is to fill in the gaps. Just use thin boxes rotated to the
correct angle and scaled to fit the gap. After all you don't care about the
bit "inside" the hill. Just make the "top" surface of the box match up with
the other objects.

Regards
Gordon


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