"[GDS|Entropy]" <gds-entropy    AT    hotmail   DOT  com> wrote:
> I have decided to fix/improve some of the standard include files that come
> with PovRay, and submit them to the POV Team for inclusion. The first on the
> list is metals.inc.
>
> The include files will be done one by one, starting with the texture
> includes.
>

Not concerning textures, but rather shapes.inc:  I came up with some
changes/fixes to the HF-generating macros there (some necessary, some of my own
choosing), which I posted...

http://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.48e0b5a74b96f64378dcad930%40news.povray.org%3E/

and

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.48f6d3aa220cdb3e78dcad930%40news.povray.org%3E/

The thing is, I'm not so sure how to proceed; my changes probably need vetting
by the POV team.  (They work great for me, no problems--but my code could
probably be improved by more astute programmers.  And some of my simple changes
*do* slow down the .inc file's execution...which could probably be fixed by some
better code.) And there are one or two needed fixes that I never got around to,
due to a lack of code knowledge on my part.

But all in all, I think my changes are good ones, and remove some buggy behavior
with hi-rez HFs. Consider my efforts to be a 'template' to be further improved.

Ken W.

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