superellipsoid objects can have a cool star look to them if played with
properly. Use values greater than 1 (The docs only mention 0 to 1, but you
can go higher) and you can get some nice shapes. For some examples, look for
a thread called Super Lips on .images dated 1/9/99 by Ken Tyler

Josh English
eng### [at] spiritonecom

ET wrote:

> Now that I've had stirred you lets see if I can get an answer to what is
> surely an annoyingly simple question.
>
> But, just for the record, as marvelous as Povray may be - and it seems
> as thought if might be fun - the developers of it clearly suffer from
> the same disease most others suffer from - they can produce a great
> program, but why on earth cant they produce a clear, simple how to use
> file!?!?!?!
> And therein lies the source of greatest annoyance...
>
> Having created a text object standing on a plane with a black background
> I aspired to produce a star in the sky - one star, not a mass...
> And, of course, the help files refer to stars but not how to create one
> (unless I am blind - this is possible, stupidity and blindness often go
> hand in hand).
> I also following many resource links including finding many starry
> efforts - but no instructions, no one star.
> My abortive efforts at trying to strangle reason out of the stars.inc
> stuff only succeeded in getting the camera to look at one star - but
> through the legs of the letters of my text!
>
> How do I create ONE star in the sky, whilst keeping my text object in
> place?
>
> Obviously head spinningly simple - but I'm stuffed if I can figure it
> out!!!
> All responses gratefully welcomed.
>
> Regards,
> Eero Tarik
> Adelaide
> South Australia.........max24C..........sunny.............

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