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1 May 2024 04:28:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feature Request - Texture Override, Help Request  
From: Jan Dvorak
Date: 16 Jan 2008 00:26:05
Message: <478d956d$1@news.povray.org>
Kyle napsal(a):
> Perhaps someone can help me figure out a way to do this...
> 
> I've built a brick road by unioning several hundred bricks to create a section of
road, and then
> laying the sections end to end to form the complete road.  Each brick in a section
has a different
> texture.  Now, I'm trying to add stripes to the road.  I can do it within the
texture statement used
> for the bricks, but that creates stripes that are too uniform.  I'd like to have
some curvature and
> disparities in the stripes, which I cannot figure out how to do without the
disparities being
> obviously duplicated in each section.  Any ideas?
> 
> This is where I think a texture override would be very helpful.  The road could be
built as above,
> unioning bricks to form sections and then unioning the sections to form the road. 
Then an overall
> texture could be applied that defines the stripes for the entire union.  This would
be helpful for
> applying dirt textures too.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
union the bricks and apply a stripes texture (object rgb,Clear)


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