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4 May 2024 08:08:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: trace question  
From: Stephen
Date: 10 Sep 2017 11:26:00
Message: <59b55988$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/09/2017 16:03, clipka wrote:
>> Hope is not involved because there is a good chance I would want to do
>> that. Is it at all possible?
> No; not with the current versions of POV-Ray. The `trace` function would
> have to be extended to report the UV coordinate of the intersection, so
> that you could then feed it into `eval_pigment` instead of the 3D
> coordinate.

Again, thanks.
In that case for UV mapped models I'll continue to use the slicing 
method for creating df3s for meshes.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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