"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3e81ae1f@news.povray.org...
> Matt Harbers <gte### [at] prismgatechedu> wrote:
> > What would be the best thing for me to do to get really good at
> > it.  Are there books that will help me or what do you people suggest?
>
>   Read the documentation. That's what I did (and I'm sure most povrayers did)
> to learn to use the program.
>

What Warp said. Also (since he's too modest), check out Warp's VFAQ at:
http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povQandT/

and, if you want to avoid my main error, make sure you understand how transforms
(scale, rotate, translate) work, particularily in reference to <0,0,0>

Other apparently required activities include:-

1. Post an image of a mirrored sphere hovering over a checkered plane. Ideally,
if its your first post, you should pick some humungous format such as BMP. Oh,
and don't forget to post it to a non-binary group. If you can multi-post it to
several non-binary groups, so much the better.

2. Get in a fight with ABX in .general

3. Get in a fight with BDW in .off-topic

4. Post a message to .general pointing out how crappy pov is, explaining you
could write a better program in your sleep if only you knew how to program.

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