nemesis wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Otherwise, it seems pretty straightforward. Altho there are a couple (so
>> far) of bothersome limitations, particularly in the textures. (Like, I don't
>> know how to do checkerboards or hex shapes or some of the other stuff POV
>> has built in, and you can't rotate a texture directly, so your wood rings
>> are fixed in one axis - just minor stuff like that).
> 
> Much more powerful procedural textures are coming to Blender soon enough,
> completely modifiable via the nodes editor as well.  Anyway, most people into
> Blender -- and most other 3D apps as well -- simply use image maps, though
> being a povhead myself, I never quite adapted to the whole UV-unwrap thing
> either.
> 
Well, I don't get how they do it anyway. I mean, you "unwrap" your mesh 
to a pattern which is either a) sort of like the original, but not 
really, or b) a lot of squares, where you can't tell the original 
geometry. Then you paint it, reimport, overlay it into the UV pattern 
then how the frack it works. Think the guys with.. deep paint, or what 
ever its called, have it right. Lose the idiot, "make it some place 
else, then glue it on like a label", BS and just paint directly on the 
object, like you would in the real world. If you can't precisely control 
the texture, its position, etc., or get an "accurate" mesh layout to 
draw into, what is the point? And, even if its "may" be accurate, 
technically, it takes a very different mind than mine to "get" how the 
two correspond, without having some way to "see it" as I am doing the 
drawing.

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void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
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   else
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