"nomail" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "Shark" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> Let's say I wanted to render several views of the same model in one 
>> image,
>> but didn't want the objects interfering with each other (shadows and
>> reflections, and such). Could I just surround each model with a box with
>> the no_shadow and no_reflection attributes set?
>>
>> How could I accomplish this?

You can make an animation of the different views and in the final frame
of animation use image maps of the first frames in an orthographic camera
to paste them together automatically.

#switch(clock)
#case(0)
   camera{}
#break
#case(0.25)
   camera{}
#break
#case(0.5)
   camera{}
#break
#case(0.75)
   camera{}
#break
#case(1)
      camera {
         orthographic
         location <0,0,1>
         look_at  <0,0,0>
         right 1*x
         up 1*y
      }
      light_source {
         <0, 0, 30>
         color rgb <1, 1, 1>
         parallel
      }
      box { // this box fits exactly in view
         <-0.5, -0.5, 0>, <0.5, 0.5, 0>
         texture {
            pigment{ //front
               image_map {
                  sys "file1.bmp"
                  once
               }
               scale 0.5
               translate <0,-0.5,0>
            }
         }
         texture {
            pigment{ //top
               image_map {
                  sys "file2.bmp"
                  once
               }
               scale 0.5
               translate <0,0,0>
            }
         }
         texture {
            pigment{ //right
               image_map {
                  sys "file3.bmp"
                  once
               }
               scale 0.5
               translate <-0.5,-0.5,0>
            }
         }
         texture {
            pigment{ //corner
               image_map {
                  sys "file4.bmp"
                  once
               }
               scale 0.5
               translate <-0.5,0,0>
            }
         }
      }
#break
#if (clock != 1)
scene
#end

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