Am 20.08.2013 21:45, schrieb Bald Eagle:
>
>> Second, apparently there is meant to be text displayed on the "screen" -
>> #declare MyTextObject =
>> text {
>>     ttf "crystal.ttf", "target: enemy base", 0.01, <0,0>
>>     scale 0.08
>>     pigment {color <1.0,0.5,0.2>}
>>     finish {ambient 1 diffuse 0}
>> }
>>
>> That doesn't show up, and I'm currently investigating why.
>
> Alright, I changed the font to arial, and that made the text visible,
> but it was being interfered with by the fog or something.
>
> I've now stripped everything else out the scene, but I'm missing
> characters now.
>
> "Text size 0.08"   Appears as "T         0 08"
>
> commenting out the global_settings {charset utf8} had no effect.
> Changing the font to Times only shows a capital T
>
> Changing it to arial, all caps gives me "TEXT S ZE 0 08"
>
> I am truly bewildered.

Are you using POV-Ray 3.6?

If so, you might be seeing one of two known bugs, FS#162 and FS#200, 
that have been fixed in POV-Ray 3.7 (see http://bugs.povray.org/task/162 
and http://bugs.povray.org/task/200, respectively).

If not, I'd be interested in the details.

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