By popular request, I've moced this from bugreports into New Users.
Original thread:
http://news.povray.org/povray.bugreports/thread/%3Cweb.4dce72ab715ba47a6731f09e0%40news.povray.org%3E/

clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> I'm afraid to say this, but: No. The texture is what makes the
> difference. The default is pitch black, so unless you specify anything
> else that's exactly what you get.
>
> You can change the default though, by specifying a texture in the
> #default statement.
>
> Try
>
>      texture { pigment { color rgb <1.0,1.0,1.0> } }
>
> for starters.
>
> (Maybe you also want to read the tutorial section of the Fine Manual ;-))

So when I used color Blue in the sphere definition, that's not enough? It was
before.

Oh and about the light source being right behind the camera, when I fixed that
(see the current version of bollen-1.pov: I went from <0,0,-10000.0> to
<20,10,-10.0>, in all respects that's not behind the camera, nor straight in
front of it) the pov still rendered only a 2-tone image.
why does http://home.ooijer.com/hsp/bollen-1.pov render like
http://home.ooijer.com/hsp/bollen-1.jpg (in flat B&W)? (and
http://home.ooijer.com/hsp/bollen-01.pov renders like
http://home.ooijer.com/hsp/bollen-01.jpg
If someone could render the pocs I mentioned
If someone could render the povs I mentioned in
http://news.povray.org/web.4dd0da04d007ae226731f09e0%40news.povray.org
and produce a nice blue ball preferably with the letters "iB" cut out of it (I
probably have made a posirtioning error in my pov, the letters could very well
be inside the sphere now, so the difference-stmt is useless.) that would be very
much appreciated, and then I could look in to it, and see the error of my ways.
Because until now, I have the idea that people are not reading (or rendering
temselves) the povs I posted, or reading the posts I made, instead everyone is
just by default telling me to read the manual, when if I make the changes
sugegsted by the users (while copying the camera + light stmts from povs which
*did* render properly) and this is not getting me anywhere. I hate to complain
at people voluntarily spending time and effort into helping me, so I think that
if anyone would edit my pov and make it work, then send it to me, that would be
more constructive than this to-ing and fro-ing.

(Sorry about the rant!)

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