Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Such a drastic change cannot be done for POV-Ray 3.x but it could be 
> considered for a future version. Usually, after 1 level of texture_map 
> nesting, my brain starts melting down when defining textures in POV-Ray, 
> while I don't have this problem when using separate channels in other 
> softwares ;-)

It would be possible to simplify this with a macro.

> Really, having all surface properties independent and controllable by a 
> combination of a pattern + specific modifiers is extremely efficient when 
> creating textures and gives a lot of flexibility.

I would like to repeat that when using the same pattern for several 
properties (which will very often be the case) this will result in 
unnecessary pattern evaluations.  You could try to introduce a kind of 
pattern cache for this but this would be quite complicated.

Christoph

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