"melo" <mel### [at] coxnet> wrote in message 
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> Hello, Chris,
>
> I have struggled some more with my animation, then started playing with
> POVPerson.  I was going to follow
> Quick reference step by step before I play with animation
>
> However I had not managed to go far:
>
> The online documentation recommends
>
> #include "povperson.inc"
>
> object 
> {ppFigure("ann.inc","style1.inc","smile","standing.inc","ppoutfit1.inc")
> translate x*5}
>

Ah yes. That is wrong. The example files like 'pp00example05.pov' contain 
the later version of the syntax for the ppFigure macro, where all of the 
parameters have been removed and where you need to 'include' files and call 
macros to set specific options before calling the 'ppFigure' macro. This 
allows defaults to be used and the parameters in the example above are 
roughly the defaults.

The minimum required to add a figure is therefore:

#include "povperson.inc"
ppFigure()

Which adds an 'ann'  figure about 1.6 POV-Ray units tall standing at the 
origin facing towards +Z. The hair looks terrible in this default figure as 
it's cut to about 30 hairs to minimise the performance impact, so you may 
want to try:

#include "povperson.inc"
#include "ppstyle6.inc"
ppAddPoseFile("ppsitting.inc");
object {ppFigure() rotate y*180}
light_source { < 2, 60  ,-30> color rgb<1, 1  , 1  >*0.6 }
light_source { < 0, 24  ,-26> color rgb<1, 1  , 1  >*1.2 }
light_source { <5,  6.5,-10> color rgb<1, 0.5, 0.5>}
camera {
  location <-0.3, 1.08,-2.1>
  look_at  y
}

which gives you a model with hair and a non-default pose.

I do have an updated version of the users guide that I never got round to 
publishing. I'll dig it out and see if it makes sense to replace the one 
that's there.

Regards,
Chris B.

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