Thank You so much!
:)Maria

Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:
> Wasn't it chichi86 who wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I'm very new to povray and I'm supposed to create a room for a computer
> >science class I'm taking. I'm trying to put a window into one of my walls
> >but I can't get it to show up. This is what I have:
> >
> >#declare wall=
> >union{
> >box{<-1,0,5> <9,8,5>}
> >pigment{color LightBlue}
> >}
> >object{wall}
> >object{wall rotate<0,90,0> translate <-6,0,4>}
> >
> >#declare window=
> >difference{
> >box {<-1,0,5> <9,8,5>}
> >box {<2,3,2.5> <6,6,2.5>} texture{Glass}}
> >object{window}
> >
> >The entire wall turns into glass, and I've tries all sorts of dimensions.
> >I'm sorry to bug you with a beginner's question, but I wasn't able to find
> >an answer in the FAQs or help text.
> >Thanks!
>
> Your main problem is that your boxes have zero thickness in the z
> direction. That doesn't work very well in POV. Give them a little
> thickness, like box{<-1,0,5> <9,8,5.25>}
>
> The second problem is that the second component of your window
> difference misses the first component completely. One has a z value of 5
> and the other 2.5. Make the two boxes overlap, like this:
>   difference{
>     box {<-1,0,5> <9,8,5.25>}
>     box {<2,3,4.5> <6,6,6>}
>
> The third problem is that the "window" object isn't a window, it's a
> wall with a window-shaped hole in it, so its texture shouldn't be Glass,
> it should be your wall texture.
>
> Then you need to get rid of the solid wall that's in the same place as
> the wall with the hole in it.
>
> But now there's no glass in the window, so you need to add something
> like this
>
> #declare pane = box{<2,3,5.1> <6,6,5.15> texture {Glass}}
> object {pane}
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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