POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : QUESTION: Bump not showing? : Re: QUESTION: Bump not showing? Server Time
2 May 2024 18:46:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: QUESTION: Bump not showing?  
From: Sven Littkowski
Date: 31 Jul 2017 23:54:15
Message: <597ffb67@news.povray.org>
On 31.07.2017 07:58, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Sven Littkowski <I### [at] SvenLittkowskiname> wrote:
> 
>> Okay, everyone: I herewith declare myself as a big fool!
>> I use POV-Ray for soooo many years, since around 1990 or so, and can you

>> believe it I just oversaw all the time of posting here, that I used:
>> QUALITY = 6
>> And did not even think about checking for the Q setting!!!!!
>> SHAME ON ME! I wasted so much of your all valuable time! But at least,
>> one more time the POV-Ray community has proven its great pioneer-alike
>> spirit! I owe you all my big thanks!
> 
> I've had a hard time "debugging" a scene in the past, when I did the same
 thing.
> I'd really like to see some mechanism - image file metadata or something 
else,
> for tagging an image with certain critical data - it would help keep a ha
ndle on
> things like this.
> 
> Maybe we just need a tiny little FAQ/checklist for debugging scenes - not

> because I'm Captain Obvious - but because sometimes we read-through error
s,
> overlook things, or just plain old forget to check the very simplest of t
hings.
> Did you place the object IN the scene after #declaring it?
> Do you have a light source?
> A camera?
> 
> I play with "advanced" scenes all the time, but I still find myself from 
time to
> time struggling with the very simplest of all elements of the SDL file an
d
> command syntax.   A reminder checklist is always helpful and always there
,
> whether anyone is online or not.
> 
> Glad to see you found your mistake, Sven.  I hope you develop this into a
 very
> nice scene   :)
> 
I hope so, too. Will try. Will become an animation, too. Hopefully.

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