Am 31.08.2014 13:14, schrieb bublible:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 29.08.2014 22:48, schrieb bublible:
>>
>>> Another problem: I am not able find pattern that would do "radial gradient",
>>> that is circle blending (normal gradient transform linear on x or y axis). I was
>>> trying: onion, planar, wood...with all there is one big problem: I need to apply
>>> it to polygon (simple square) STARTING FROM THE CENTER, but all those patterns
>>> starting from a corner??? Being webdesigner I never saw anything like that cos
>>> when I apply circle/radial gradient those are centric circles, not ones having
>>> their center in a corner. I was trying to transalte its center but it did not do
>>> what I was expecting...please, help again my friend if you can. :(
>>
>> Those patterns are not starting from a corner - they're starting from
>> the coordinate origin (i.e. <0,0,0>). If you want it to start at e.g.
>> <X,Y,Z>, apply translate the texture using "translate <X,Y,Z>".
>>
>>
>> Maybe you should read the tutorial in the docs.
>
> I DID READ IT BUT IT WAS OF NO HELP TO ME THEREFORE I AM ASKING HERE, DON'T YOU
> THINK?!

I'm not saying "read the docs", I'm saying "reat the tutorial in the 
docs"; maybe I should have been a bit more clear and written "work 
through the tutorial". You don't read tutorials to help you with a 
particular question, but to get the gist of some program, and it doesn't 
sound like you got the gist of POV-Ray yet - you're coming from another 
direction and seem to be expecting POV-Ray to work the same, but it doesn't.

If you go on like that, you /will/ be asking countless questions here 
about stuff that might all become clear while working through the 
tutorial, and you /will/ be frustrated about the responses because 
people will be unable to understand what your real problems are, and/or 
you won't be able to make much sense of their answers.

> Some time before I did exactly what you are advising me to do BUT all it does is
> growing bigger NOT MOVING PATTERN CENTER...so what you are advising me to do
> don't work as expected at all as I already try it out before as I said...but
> thanx anyway.

It does work, believe me. The reason why you couldn't get it to work 
like you expected is likely due to some other - probably rather 
fundamental - misunderstanding about POV-Ray.


Oh, and you might want to work on that attitude of yours; getting all 
upset about a neutral reply, just because it suggests stuff you think 
you already tried, won't get you anywhere. (To the contrary, you risk 
pissing off people that would otherwise be willing to continue trying to 
help you.) Remember, people can't see what you did and what you didn't, 
they can merely guess. And also there's the possibility that when you 
tried it you made some mistakes.

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