"John Smith" <me### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
news:3ddc198d@news.povray.org...
> Is there a provision in POVRay for using a wallpaper (an image) for the
> background. That is, I would like to reference a bitmap that would match
the
> viewport size and orientation no matter how I move the camera. No shadows
or
> lighting on it either.

You could use Screen.inc, found in the includes directory (folder), to keep
a image file showing in the camera frame. It was made to fix elements into
the view, although I don't know of any example of a fixed background. It
would need to be large and more distant than any other scene element, with a
ambient 1 diffuse 0 in the finish statement of the texture used as the
image_map.

Preventing shadows would probably require that you light_group the whole
scene yet leave the background plane out of that grouping.

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Farewell,
Bob

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