"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>   As many of you know there is a POV-Ray texture library hosted at
> povray.org ( http://texlib.povray.org )
>

    I did but I'd forgotten about it and on revisting it I remember why...

>
> 1.) Do you think this a useful resource in it's present form ?
>

    No, not, as other have already said, in its present form. This is
exactly the reason I never revisited it - it's far too hard and time
consuming to find anything useful.
    Also, like someone else said, I think it would be better if the textures
where placed in context - glass textures on bottles, wood textures on
tables, etc...

>
> 2.) Do you think it would be a better resource if more people contributed
>     to it

    Definatly. One thing that would be nice is if textures could be taken
from IRTC entries - so they could be shown along with a an example of them
in use.

> and the textures were updated to work correctly with the latest
>     versions of POV-Ray ?
>

    For it to be of any use, yes. I think this kind of resource will be most
useful to newbies and having to update them just to use them is just going
to annoy a newbie.

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> 3.) If this became a active resource for POV-Ray textures would you help
>     contribute to it ?
>

    Possibly - if I felt any of my textures where up to scratch.

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> 4.) Would you use the textures from this site in your scenes ?
>

    I might use them as a basis for textures in my own scene.

>
> 5.) Should we just get rid of it because it serves no purpose, it's a dumb
>     idea, who cares anyway ?
>

    No certainly not - it's a good idea badly executed (though I think a lot
of that is down to the limitations imposed by it being a web resource).

    Lastly, as someone else said, it would be good to see more complex
texture examples. Oh and less of the minor variation on a theme type
textures - once you've seen one "mid-brown with slightly darker brown bands"
wood texture you've seen them all.

--
Scott Hill. (sco### [at] innocentcom)
Software Engineer.
Author of Pandora's Box (coming to a web page soon(ish)).

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