Tim Glover wrote in message <35D### [at] nettallycom>...
>Wow - not bad for off the top of your head.  This is pretty close to
>what I wanted.  It took a few tweaks -- like Glear -> Clear <grin> --

Like #declare Glear = color Clear :)
Sorry, I was rendering at highest render/normal gui and typing was a pit
pesky...

>and still having trouble using bumpmap and texture map together, but
>DEFINITELY a good lead for further experimentation.  First tries have
>been exciting.  Guess it'll be a LATE night tonight.
>
>bye bye duct tape.
>
>Thanks for the excellent lead!
>

Glad I could help. Later you may try a multi-layered texture with the
undermost one for pigment and the rest completely clear, but with bump_map,
texture_mapped specular, reflection, metallic... beats 3DS's textures,
doesn't it (well, no u-v mapping in POV...yet)

>
>Tim Glover
>
>tgl### [at] nettallycom

Happy tracing!

--Peter

pet### [at] usanet

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I've actually added the feature that you're looking for... I call it an
"image_pattern".  But you won't find it in the official version.
As soon as POV 3.1 becomes official, I'll get out a beta version of my
changes (and hopefully they'll make it in some form into the official
version).

My other changes to POV include:
  UV mapping
  new mesh syntax - for smaller files - developed with Thomas Baier's help

-Nathan Kopp

Dan Connelly wrote:
> 

> I also am surprised that a raster image (ie image map analog) can't be
> used anywhere a pattern can.  Given the highly modular form of the POV code
> it would seem the natural implementation.
> 
> Instead of bump_map and image_map (and specular_map...), one could
> then just have map... like any other function.
>

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Are these mods available somewhere?  Not everyone's jumped to 3.1 betas
yet -- some of us are still using the last official release.  (a UV
mapping workaround  was going to be my next project!)

Tim G.
tgl### [at] nettallycom




Nathan Kopp wrote:
> 
> I've actually added the feature that you're looking for... I call it an
> "image_pattern".  But you won't find it in the official version.
> As soon as POV 3.1 becomes official, I'll get out a beta version of my
> changes (and hopefully they'll make it in some form into the official
> version).
> 
> My other changes to POV include:
>   UV mapping
>   new mesh syntax - for smaller files - developed with Thomas Baier's help
> 
> -Nathan Kopp
>

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