|  |  | Hi(gh)!
Perhaps once more a stupid beginner's mistake (after 16 years of 
POVing... it's just humiliating!): I'm just not able to place a text 
object (within an object pigment pattern) on a box tilted by 30 degrees 
around the x axis!
Here is the code:
   #declare Display_Card_Rounding=
   cylinder
   {
     0, <0.1, 0, 0>, 0.0015
   }
   #declare Display_Card_Panel=
   box
   {
     0, <0.1, 0.03, 0.003>
   }
   #declare Display_Card=
   union
   {
     union
     {
       object { Display_Card_Rounding }
       object { Display_Card_Panel translate <0, 0, -0.0015>}
       translate <0, 0.0015, 0>
       rotate <30, 0, 0>
     }
     union
     {
       object { Display_Card_Rounding }
       object { Display_Card_Panel translate <0, 0, -0.0015>}
       translate <0, 0.0015, 0>
       rotate <-30, 0, 0>
       translate <0, 0, 2*(0.0315*cos(radians(60))+0.0015*sin(radians(60)))>
     }
     difference // Display card top
     {
       cylinder { 0, <0.1, 0, 0>, 0.003 }
       plane { y, 0 rotate <30, 0, 0> }
       plane { y, 0 rotate <-30, 0, 0> }
       translate <0, 0.0315*sin(radians(60))-0.0015*cos(radians(60)), 
0.0315*cos(radians(60))+0.0015*sin(radians(60))>
     }
   }
#declare N_Brushed=
normal
{
   granite
   bump_size 0.5
   turbulence 10
   scale <1, 0.001, 0.001>
}
#declare F_Metallic_Low_Ref =
finish
{
   diffuse 1
   brilliance 0.7
   specular 1
   roughness 0.001
   reflection 0.05
   metallic
}
#declare T_Brushed_Aluminium=
texture
{
   pigment { color rgb 0.6 }
   finish { F_Metallic_Low_Ref }
   normal { N_Brushed }
}
object
   {
     Display_Card
     texture { T_Brushed_Aluminium }
     texture
     {
       pigment
       {
	object
	{
	  text
	  {
	    ttf "/media/disk1part9/fonts/lucon.ttf"
	    "T_Stone1", 0.001, 0
	    scale 0.01
	    translate <0, 0.01, 0>
	    rotate <30, 0, 0>
	
           }
	  color rgbf 1
	  color rgb 0
	}
       }
     }
   }
// end of code
All I ever get is an empty aluminium panel (see attachment)... what goes 
wrong?
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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> Perhaps once more a stupid beginner's mistake (after 16 years of
> POVing... it's just humiliating!): I'm just not able to place a text
> object (within an object pigment pattern) on a box tilted by 30 degrees
> around the x axis!
...
> All I ever get is an empty aluminium panel (see attachment)... what goes
> wrong?
The text object you use for the pigment pattern is extremely thin (0.001 
scaled by 0.01 = 0.00001), and not close enough to the surface you want 
to texture.
You apparently want to attach it to the z=0 surface of the 
Display_Card_Panel that, in total, undergoes the following transformations:
     translate <0, 0, -0.0015>
     translate <0, 0.0015, 0>
     rotate <30, 0, 0>
You have to apply all of these to you text object (it seems you forgot 
the first one) after the scaling, /plus/ a translation before the 
scaling so that the z=0 plane lies entirely inside the text object (to 
avoid coincident surface problems), i.e.:
   text
   {
     ttf "/media/disk1part9/fonts/lucon.ttf"
     "T_Stone1", 0.001, 0
     translate <0, 0, -0.0005>
     scale 0.01
     translate <0, 0, -0.0015>
     translate <0, 0.01, 0>
     rotate <30, 0, 0>
   }
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