This seems to be a subset of a more general How Do I issues in POV Ray.
Without a way to mode certain scenes in real time its almost impossible to
guage what kind of numbers you need for a lot of effects. Media is one I
have stumbled on and I am still not sure how to get around just trying and
trying in a small image until the ranges seem to work.

"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in message
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> Mitchell Waite wrote:
> > These How Tos are short tutorials on how to do a speciifc task
> > in POV Ray and are fun to write. Things like How Do I Make a
> > Cloud, How Do I Make an Explosion, etc.
>
> "How Do I Use Media So I Can Get the Result I Want On the First
> Try Instead of Randomly Putting In Numbers?"
>
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
>
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Mitchell Waite wrote:
> 
> This seems to be a subset of a more general How Do I issues in POV Ray.
> Without a way to mode certain scenes in real time its almost impossible to
> guage what kind of numbers you need for a lot of effects. Media is one I
> have stumbled on and I am still not sure how to get around just trying and
> trying in a small image until the ranges seem to work.

This is a problem with advanced computationally expensive features. It used
to be that simple layered textures took forever to render in POV-Ray and
now with faster CPUs/FPUs you hardly notice them. So hopefully in the future
the pain we suffer with the current slower features will be mitigated by
having better hardware to work with.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:23:13 -0800, "Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom>
wrote:
> I don't understand this message. Who is "he" and what "link" have you posted
> 3 times. What is the point?

Here is explanation. Forgive me language mistakes. "he" is You.
My memory was misteken - I posted that link only 2 times. In third case I've
not posted this link becouse of little difference (Moray at subject):

http://news.povray.org/0t4b5u8qghn3m9hr2ldeuc5124lshg7m1i%404ax.com
  becouse you posted the same content at
  http://news.povray.org/3c5591de%40news.povray.org
  http://news.povray.org/3c5591d2%241%40news.povray.org

http://news.povray.org/ddea4u4e9ukkoupo1mq2k3c46poomhp6a9%404ax.com
  becouse you posted the same content at
  http://news.povray.org/3c453233%40news.povray.org
  http://news.povray.org/3c453246%40news.povray.org

You posted the similiar question but with little difference (POVRAY/MORAY)
  http://news.povray.org/3c476260%40news.povray.org
  http://news.povray.org/3c476270%40news.povray.org

Posted link: (http://news.povray.org/3889782D.B530971F%40pacbell.net)
describes rules of sending similiar content to different groups. Somebody
always send this link when anybody waste space of server. It's not against you
- it's just to refresh rules of sending.

ABX

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