Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> So I've got this scene written for MegaPOV 0.7 with the following code 
> in it:
> 
> #declare worldnet5 = function
>   {
>   pigment
>     {
>     marble
>     color_map
>       {
>       [ 0.0 color rgb 0 ]
>       [ 1.0 color rgb 1 ]
>       }
>     rotate <0, 0, 90>
>     }
>   }
> 
> #declare worldnet7 = function { pigment { radial frequency 48 turbulence 
> 4 } }
> 
> #declare worldnet9 = function { (min(worldnet7+.9, worldnet5) * 
> (worldnet7 * worldnet5)^3) * 100 }
> 
> ...and I was trying to make it work in POV-Ray 3.5. Well, changing the 
> power operator to pow() was a no brainer, but it kept giving me parsing 
> errors for worldnet9, no matter how I tried to fix it. Finally I gave up 
> and looked through the documentation to see exactly what was going 
> wrong. The documentation is far from easy reading, but the impression 
> that I got was that what I'm trying to do may not be possible at all.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, whoever changed functions for 3.5 butchered a 
> perfectly good syntax.. but that's not the point, the point is, *is* it 
> possible to write this function in 3.5, and if so, how should it look?
> 

Hello Xplo,
If you have a look at http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/isotut/index.htm you 
will find good tutorials that explains the syntax for povray 3.5

All the best

Fidel.

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