File as Texture...

Hello !

Is it possible, to use a picture-file (.tif, .jpg, .gif, .bmp...) as a
texture ? How ?

Regards

Martin

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"Martin T. Thoma" wrote:
> 
> File as Texture...
> 
> Hello !
> 
> Is it possible, to use a picture-file (.tif, .jpg, .gif, .bmp...) as a
> texture ? How ?

You may use an image inside a pigment statement using the image_map
command. Look in the docs for specific information on using an image
map in your scene.

 The basic syntax is -

#declare My_Tex =

texture {
 pigment  {
  image_map { tga "your_image.tga" }
 }
}


There is a great online tutorial on using image maps here -
http://members.xoom.com/yang4yang/pov/imap1.html

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