"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote in message 
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>I believe I already mentioned it a while ago on povray.general, but this 
>might be a better place.  What I would like to see in POV-Ray 4 is the 
>possibility to define more than one scene in one POV-file with the 
>possibility to "layer" your scenes, meaning: use one scene as background 
>for the second, and so on.  This way, the problem mentioned in "Lighting 
>problem at extreme distances" (povray.general) could be solved by using one 
>scene for the astronomical objects, planets and sun, and another for the 
>smaller objects, like spaceships, with the first scene as background for 
>the second.
> It would also be a lot easier this way to add a HUD to your image: just 
> create a HUD-scene (very easy to do with a orthographic camera) and use 
> the original scene as background.  Or lensflares.
>
> It should also be possible to use one scene as image_map in another scene, 
> but now I think of it, maybe that's *all* you should be able to do. 
> Layering of scene could then be done this way:
>

I second that.  I have been thinking along the same lines myself.


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-Nekar Xenos-

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