I love the Galaxy include file by Chris Colefax, but since 3.5 came out, 
things don't render quite the same.  With background nebulas, I 
sometimes get a weird wiggly cut-off across the horizontal center of the 
picture.

I've included an attachment to show what I mean.  Has anyone else 
noticed this, and possibly figured out a fix?

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> I've included an attachment to show what I mean.  Has anyone else
> noticed this, and possibly figured out a fix?


This is just a guess, but does the include file use the gradient pattern
anywhere? Because that changed when 3.5 came out. If "gradient x" (or y or
z) appears anywhere in the include file, try replacing it with
"function{abs(x)}" (or y or z). The difference is in the negative region of
the pattern; prior to 3.5 the gradient pattern was mirrored around the
origin.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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Yes, that works! Thanks for the information. It only
requires three edits to the original include files. Two
in "galaxy.obj" and one in "galaxy.bg".

Is this great include file still on line somewhere?
If so we should update it.

Harolddd

"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote in message
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> > I've included an attachment to show what I mean.  Has anyone else
> > noticed this, and possibly figured out a fix?
>
>
> This is just a guess, but does the include file use the gradient pattern
> anywhere? Because that changed when 3.5 came out. If "gradient x" (or y or
> z) appears anywhere in the include file, try replacing it with
> "function{abs(x)}" (or y or z). The difference is in the negative region
of
> the pattern; prior to 3.5 the gradient pattern was mirrored around the
> origin.
>
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>

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Well, to answer my own question. Yes, Chis Colefax has
a web site with his include files on them, which was updated
just 9 days ago.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1434/

I sent him an e-mail with the corrected files (not that he couldn't
have just as easily edited them himself, but why not).

Harolddd

"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote in message
news:41b7db7b$1@news.povray.org...
> > I've included an attachment to show what I mean.  Has anyone else
> > noticed this, and possibly figured out a fix?
>
>
> This is just a guess, but does the include file use the gradient pattern
> anywhere? Because that changed when 3.5 came out. If "gradient x" (or y or
> z) appears anywhere in the include file, try replacing it with
> "function{abs(x)}" (or y or z). The difference is in the negative region
of
> the pattern; prior to 3.5 the gradient pattern was mirrored around the
> origin.
>
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>

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