On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:06:13 +0100, Zeger Knaepen wrote:
>> > and cannot be layered.
>> I don't understand this statement.  Why would you want to layer a normal
>> anyway?
> How would you make a dirty blurred-reflective metal?  In MegaPov you could add
> a layer of
> a dirt-texture to your blurred-reflective metal, but because layered-textures 
> don't work
> with texture_maps, you couldn't add a layer of dirt to the blurred-reflective 
> metal in
> POV3.5.
> It's probably possible to 'fake' layers using texture_maps, but you have to
> agree that
> layered textures are much easier to understand and to make.

True.  Personally, I don't understand why you can't use a texture_map in a
layered texture.  Let me investigate that a little further.
 
BTW, can you fix your newsreader to use 80 columns per line or less?  The
above is what your post looks like here.

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