How to do...

Hello !

I'm a totally newbee in PovRay. I want to know if it's possible to
create

1.) Lens-flares
2.) Visible Light-Sources
3.) Particles

with PovRay and how it's done. Some small examples or keywords would be
very helpfull. Thanks !

Regards

Martin

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Try looking here. If it's pov it's most likely here.
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/bkmrk999.htm

Martin T. Thoma <mar### [at] radiok2rde> wrote in message
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> How to do...
>
> Hello !
>
> I'm a totally newbee in PovRay. I want to know if it's possible to
> create
>
> 1.) Lens-flares
> 2.) Visible Light-Sources
> 3.) Particles
>
> with PovRay and how it's done. Some small examples or keywords would be
> very helpfull. Thanks !
>
> Regards
>
> Martin

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Hi!

For lens-flares and the spray plug-in (similar to particles), please check
Chris Colefax's page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/
For visible light-sources, use the "looks_like" (i think) keyword. Check the
POV docs :-)

Anyway: Many links can be found on Uncle Ken's links page.
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm

And: If you are new, you may want to get involved in the povray.newusers
newsgroup on this server, for helpful hints.

Greetings,
Johannes.

Martin T. Thoma <mar### [at] radiok2rde> wrote in message
news:383### [at] radiok2rde...
> How to do...
>
> Hello !
>
> I'm a totally newbee in PovRay. I want to know if it's possible to
> create
>
> 1.) Lens-flares
> 2.) Visible Light-Sources
> 3.) Particles
>
> with PovRay and how it's done. Some small examples or keywords would be
> very helpfull. Thanks !
>
> Regards
>
> Martin

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>1.) Lens-flares<

Possible, but you need an include to do it. Look at
http://nathan.kopp.com/nkflare.htm
for a lens effects include.


>2.) Visible Light-Sources<

Look in the documentation for the "looks_like" command, it is used like
this:
light_source {//other light source stuff
    looks_like {
        sphere {< 0, 0, 0>, 1
            pigment {color White}
            finish {ambient 1}
        }
    }
}

There are also a couple other ways of doing this, I made a post to
povray.newusers demonstrating them. You might want to check
povray.newusers out, there is a lot of useful info there. Also, you
might want to look in povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions for a
message explaining what all of the groups on this server are for, and
some other info.


>3.) Particles<

Also possible, look here:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/
for a Liquid Spray include.

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"Martin T. Thoma" wrote:
> 
> How to do...
> 
> Hello !
> 
> I'm a totally newbee in PovRay.

Welcome aboard !

> I want to know if it's possible to create
> 
> 1.) Lens-flares
> 2.) Visible Light-Sources
> 3.) Particles
> 
> with PovRay and how it's done. Some small examples or keywords would be
> very helpfull. Thanks !

 You have pretty much recieved the answers to your questions and I would
only like to add a bit to what has already been mentioned. I posted a
a "welcome to the news groups" message in the announcements group on this
server just yesterday. I encourage you to take the time to read through
it to help you get oriented with the news groups and where to find
information and resources related to POV-Ray. Since I spent considerable
time on it I expect people to at least take the time to read it :)

 Besides what was mentioned about utilities for the effects you are looking
for I would also recommend that you go through the tutorials in the POV-Ray
documentation and also spend some time looking at the example scene files
that came with the program. Almost every feature in POV-Ray has an example
scene file illustrating how to use that feature. They were provided for more
than just making pretty pictures with and a lot can be learned from them.

Cheers,

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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I would add to the answers that lens flare is a good way to make visible
light sources too (except if you want to see it reflected from something).

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):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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