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  Re: Rendering Error: Too many nested textures.  
From: Bill Hails
Date: 4 Mar 2004 16:27:21
Message: <40479f38@news.povray.org>
Bernard Hatt wrote:

> Bill Hails wrote:
>> 
>> Rendering Error: Too many nested textures.
>> 
>> I get this about 1/3 of the way through a 1500x1500 render, it doesn't
>> happen for lower resolutions.
> 
> I have a recollection of seeing something like this myself with
> layered textures, it was in the form of:
> 
> blob
> {
> [blob-stuff]
> texture{pigment{aaaaa}}       // base colour
> texture{bbbbb}                // semi-transparent layer
> texture{ccccc}                // semi-transparent layer
> texture{ddddd}                // semi-transparent layer
> }
> 
> where it also gave a "Warning: No pigment type given" at all resolutions,
> and the "nested textures" error at high resolutions.
> 
> The work around seemed to be to change the base colour from
> texture{pigment{aaaaa}}
> to    pigment{aaaaa}
> 
> But it's a while since I looked at it so I could be mis-remembering it,
> and your problem could be completely different.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bernard

Thanks for that. To my knowlege I'm not using any layered textures,
but I'll double check.

-- 
Bill Hails


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