Hi POV-Ray-experts,

I have problems using cutaway_textures for a CSG difference operation. I
want to cut a blob of spheres (all slightly different colored) with a box.
The spheres are ordered on a 2D-plane and should be flattened on the side
where the box is located. So far so good.

My problem is, that cutaway_textures does not work when performing the
difference between the blob and the box. All the spheres turn completely
black. With cutaway_textures commented out just the flattened side is black.
When I use a simple set of spheres (_without_ a blob surrounding them)
everything is fine, except that I don't have to blob.

Any ideas why POV behaves like that?

Best regards,
Alex
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In article <3e6cb73f@news.povray.org>,


> I have problems using cutaway_textures for a CSG difference operation. I
> want to cut a blob of spheres (all slightly different colored) with a box.

I suspect this is where your problem is. The texture code is full of 
little hacks, there are lots of little special-cases to deal with things 
like blob component textures and cutaway_textures. Probably something 
got missed in writing the cutaway_textures feature.

If you specify a texture for the blob itself, it will probably use that 
texture. The obvious flaw with this is that you only get one texture.

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