POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Specular mapping : Re: Specular mapping Server Time
7 Aug 2024 23:15:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Specular mapping  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 17 Apr 2001 09:59:08
Message: <3ADC4C2B.1139B9E6@gmx.de>
Jakob Tendel wrote:
> 
> Does one of the inofficial versions or even POV 3.5 support specular
> mapping (i.e. controlling the reflectivity of a surface through the grey
> value of an image file, analogous to height fields)? Would be nice,
> wouldn't it?

That would be possible with a finish_map, similar to normal_map and
pigment_map - an often discussed suggestion.

It is not yet implemented, but it should be possible although it is
probably quite a lot of work.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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