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4 Aug 2024 20:17:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov question  
From: hughes, b 
Date: 14 Feb 2003 11:32:48
Message: <3e4d1a30@news.povray.org>
"Anthony D. Baye" <ban### [at] Rapidnetcom> wrote in message
news:3E4D14C7.74093BEE@Rapidnet.com...
>     I know that there is at least one include file out there to create
> "faked" lightning effects, but it works only with MegaPov, and
> apperantly not with the mac version as it doesn't include support for
> glows (Or the vaunted Mechanics Simulator, which made me wonder: besides
> the savvy interface, what makes it so different from 3.5)
>     Is it possible to create electrical effects in P.O.V 3.5?

I'm guessing you must be talking about something Rune Johansen had made. I
know of at least one other person who made a lightning include, for 3.0
(Jeff Brickley) and it had used halo for the ground contact point. I easily
changed it to media for 3.1 so there's no real difficulty in making such
changes; and it of course also works in 3.5.

You can mimic glows by using emitting media, so that's not impossible to do.

I don't know about the POV for Mac but MegaPOV 1.0 does have glows and I
didn't know it had any differences from the other platforms as far as those
kinds of features go.

Bob


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