"Timwi" <tim### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message news:4a8d95e6$1@news.povray.org...
> Timwi wrote:
>>
>> Question #1:
>> How do I use a simple bitmap file as a simple texture on a simple box? 
>> Sounds simple, doesn't it?
>>
>> Question #2:
>> Why is there absolutely nothing about this in any documentation, anything 
>> Google can find, no working examples, nothing?
>
> Shortly after asking this, I discovered image_map. Please consider 
> improving the documentation for it so that it can be found. Currently it 
> makes no prominent mention of "bitmap" or "texture". Google searches for 
> anything containing these terms does not find it.
>

Strange. I did a google for "povray bitmap texture" and the first site 
returned was the POV_Ray Textures documentation which includes the syntax 
for using bitmap based textures. That texture page also contains a link to 
the "image map" amd "image pattern" pages in the documentation which 
describe the use of images within pigment definitions. I would suggest that 
the image_map page at http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/337/ 
probably describes the way that you wish to use image maps in POV-Ray.

If you wish to wrap your image around a simple box, then the section on 
uv_mapping at http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/358/  describes 
how that works. If you just want it to map to the front face (and run 
through it like a stick of rock) then that's the default that Clipka has 
described.

There are really quite a lot of ways of using image files in POV-Ray and 
quite a lot of the documentation and various tutorials are dedicated to 
them.

Regards,
Chris B.

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