Flu <wflu at att dot net> wrote in message news:3e87b122@news.povray.org...
> I posted a picture in images of a bowl of leftover snack mix. It's still a
> WIP, but I'm having fun. The original concept was to FILL the bowl with a
> "home-tossed" snack mix. However, I ended up placing each "item" by hand
> becuase I could not find anything in POV that would allow "dropping" items
> into a bowl with collision decisions. I'm still a POV purist at this point
> and don't know many add-ins or third party software. I assume there is
> something that will allow me to fill this bowl realistically. Is that
true?
>
> --
> -Flu
>
> "Imagination is the foundation of Reality" - Gallagher
>
>

assuming you are using 3.5, you should look into using trace(). i always
heard so much about it but never actually tried using it until last night.
It works nicely for finding the place where a vector intersects an object.
then you can use the returned vector to translate your object.


ross.

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