On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:08:42 +0200, syntotic <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Should be the SIMPLEST advanced PovRay task: to wrap a simple Windows  
> BMP image
> astexture. Just specify camera, lights, object... and the texture. Then  
> the
> object is wrapped by a SIMPLE Windows BMP (bit-map file) ad the object  
> becomes
> the bitmap image! Like in, I camera watch a SIMPLE PLANE and the  
> observed face
> IS, the Windows BMP image I provided! No nonsense bmp spotting on a  
> plane. Then
> I can make transformation, change light colors, brake the plane, extend  
> into 3D
> forms, filter colors... but a SIMPLE BMP Windows image. No keyword  
> magic, no 3D
> coords expertise, just WATCH the SIMPLE BMP image on a PLANE from a  
> point of
> view with a camera and lights. Like in a theater stage? No advanced  
> language
> knowledge, no wading in documentation to project a SIMPLE WINDOWS BMP  
> image on a
> plane and use it as background, landscape, primed oil surface,  
> whatever...
> simple newbie secods with no expertise to project a SIMPLE BMP WINDOWS  
> IMAGE as
> surface texture, without going into material maps, color indexes,
> transformations... JUST a SIMPLE WINDOWS BMP BMP IMAGE FILE as texture  
> on a
> watched plane or object. Why not a single word? Landscape. Photographed  
> texture.
> Stage scene. a SIMPLE WINDOWS BMP BMP IMAGE FILE TEXTURE. So... what are  
> the
> instructions to make a SIMPLE WINDOWS BMP BMP IMAGE FILE TEXTURE ON AN  
> OBJECT
> like a plane or a cube?
>
>
The only "1 button solution" I can think of is
Insert\Scene templates\Image Map
and then replace png with bmp and replace the file name.

I'm guessing maybe I misunderstood your question because this sounds too  
easy...
-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

"The spoon is not real"

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