> Shame there's no such thing as an object_group equivalent though I 
> suspect that would be computationally hideous. Quite funky though for 
> effects like the sphere in "Sphere" reflects the room but not the people.

You could always use "no_reflection" on the people ("use sth. on sb." 
doesn't sound like nice English to me, is this the right way to say 
it?). They wouldn't show in other reflections either, though.

HTH,
Florian

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In article <40657e56@news.povray.org>,
 Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:

> ("use sth. on sb." doesn't sound like nice English to me, is this the 
> right way to say it?).

Well, in this case, the ody's are ing's anyway. In relation to actual, 
real-world ody's, this construction doesn't come up very often...you 
usually do omeing. to omeody, rather than use omeing on omeody. For 
instance, you spray omeody with a hose, not use the hose on omeody. It 
doesn't really have nying. to with the "omeody" part, it's just that the 
"use omeing on" construction can often be ambiguous: "how did you use 
that ing?". In this case, there is no amibiguity, so there's no problem.

;-)

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Hey, I'm not really sure I'm understanding what you're trying to tell me ;)

After rereading your post I think I got it - I first tried to look up 
"omeody" in a dictionary. Hehe. Well, sth. and sb. are the abbreviations 
I learned at school. Or is this some kind of dialect/speaking with full 
mouth/whatever? Not easy for a non-native speaker to get from "somebody" 
to "omeody" :)

And yes, normally I'd just use a proper verb, but that was just my 
problem: Which verb should one use with "no_reflection"? Perhaps simply: 
"You can prevent the people from showing up in the reflections by adding 
no_reflection to their object declaration". But that doesn't sound much 
cooler. And it's longer, too :)
Hey, what about "Just no_reflectioniate those buddies"? Goes along the 
same line as some CVS-book I read which announced that "to version" 
would be a valid verb since CVS :)

You know, it's a pitty that we were mainly taught English literature in 
class (Here in Germany that is). So now I can interpret Shakespeare, but 
I'd fail miserably when trying to explain somebody that my washing 
machine is broken... I always thought school should prepare for life (at 
least that's what they told us :), but hey, I'm going to study 
mathematics soon, so it seems it didn't work on me :)

Florian

P.S.: fup2 p.off-topic set

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