Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in
news:chr### [at] netplexaussieorg 

> Environment mapping is a hack designed to simulate reflection for 

Pointless discusion if You do not want to comment this 3 arguments for 
env_map I gave, AFAIR at least 1 person agree it might be 
usefull/interesting.
 
> Extended file format? Readable by what? 

by
  ifstream f("c:/images/test.txt);
  float r,g,b,id;
  f>>r>>g>>b>>id;
?
Put this in x*y loop, and convert into any format, or use in game as sprite 
with different i.e. hit regions.

> The reason nobody else is interested is that you are the only one who 
> think your ideas are good. 

---- 8< ------------------------------------
I read your article in the povray newsgroup about providing a customized
output file format. The problem you formulated is exactly the problem I
have! And I also browsed the source codes in order to adjust the program.
[...]
P.S. Do you have any other idea of which rendering software to use in order
to obtain (or better: keep) the 3d information which is lost when you get
the 2d output only?
---- 8< ------------------------------------

> And your refusal to actually work on POV  comes across as arrogance. With 
> the quality of your suggestions

No, maybe I didn't put it clear - I do want write code for POV but I know 
that I will have problems with attaching my code to huge code ogf POV and I 
will need help with that.
 
> You really have no idea how software is developed, do you? 

Actualy I do work in software company, but I mostly I develop stand-alone 
programs / modules so I must agree that I don't have practical exeprience 
with putting code written by many persons togeather.

Hmm maybe a little utility .txt -> .bmp that will show possibiliteis of 
that format ?

-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M

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