POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transparency maps : Re: Transparency maps Server Time
8 Aug 2024 14:17:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Transparency maps  
From: Mitch Klein
Date: 27 Nov 2000 12:55:05
Message: <3a229ff9$1@news.povray.org>
Thanks Christoph. I figured it was something like that. I'm just starting to
get into advanced texturing and there's definitely a lot to learn :-)

"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3A229D6A.FAD96C60@gmx.de...
>
>
> Mitch Klein wrote:
> >
> > This has probably been asked before, but not since I started looking.
Can
> > POV or MegaPOV do transparency maps? (i.e. like a hightfield image is
used
> > for displacement with light and dark areas, use an image to effect
transp.)
> >
> > thanks for listening
>
> You might have a look at the material_map section in the pov docu,
> furthermore you can also specify a transmit value for the different color
> indices in an indexed image_map.
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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