Something that's always given me trouble is the scaling 
factor to use with the woods.inc textures.  One time I made 
a set of planks to  test them out, but don't remember the 
results.

I understand that the long-grain is the Z direction.  But 
what is the unit size?  Is it one unit per growth ring, or 
what?  That is, how many POV units wide is a 2x4?

--John

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Render  ....\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\scenes\incdemo\woods\woods1.pov

The model features blocks with horizontal dimensions 2x2 POV units.
Judging by the result one would say that 1 POV unit would scale to 0.5 inch
or so, but you can tune this to your liking, of course.

Frans


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> Something that's always given me trouble is the scaling
> factor to use with the woods.inc textures.  One time I made
> a set of planks to  test them out, but don't remember the
> results.
>
> I understand that the long-grain is the Z direction.  But
> what is the unit size?  Is it one unit per growth ring, or
> what?  That is, how many POV units wide is a 2x4?
>
> --John

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In article <40455fa9$1@news.povray.org>,
 "John M. Dlugosz" <wtb### [at] sneakemailcom> wrote:

> I understand that the long-grain is the Z direction.  But 
> what is the unit size?  Is it one unit per growth ring, or 
> what?  That is, how many POV units wide is a 2x4?

That's a meaningless question. POV units don't have any relation to 
real-world units. Just scale the wood textures until they look right in 
the scene scale you are using.

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