Zeger:

Ah nothing like a little light source to make things visible :)
That definitly helped. I also did need the max_trace_level.
Now my next request...can you explain a) how this works and b) can I make it
work in Moray?

Mitch


"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote in message
news:3c55ecfe@news.povray.org...
> > That looks like it may work but when I run the Cloud POV Ray file in 3.5
I
> > get a black background and no cloud. Is there something I might be doing
> > wrong. I see a reference to something called superpatch but don't know
what
> > that is.
> The Superpatch is more or less an old version of MegaPov.
> If POV-Ray didn't halt on the double_illuminate keyword, the problem is
probably the
> max_trace_level.
> Add this at the end of your POV-file:
> //start code
> global_settings {
>     max_trac_level 50  //should be enough
> }
> //end code
> The problem is that the code uses 10 layers of clouds and the default
max_trace_level is
> less than 10, so you couldn't look through the last couple of layers.
>
> Oh, and don't forget to add a light_source outside of the clouds (inside
would work also,
> but the results will be less realistic).
>
> cu!
> --
> camera{location-z*3}#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*(C/50)#end#macro L(b,e,k,l)#local
C=0
> ;#while(C<50)sphere{G(b,e),.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local
C=C+1
> ;#end#end
L(y-x,y,x,x+y)L(y,-x-y,x+y,y)L(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)L(-y,y,y+z,x+y)L(0,x+y,
> <.5,1,.5>,x)L(0,x-y,<.5,1,.5>,x)               // ZK
http://www.povplace.be.tf
>
>

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