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Jim Holsenback <nom### [at] nomail com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2012 10:40 PM, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> > It looks like you accidentally inserted the texture
> > within the expression -x*12*Count. Such things are easier
> > to spot if you use more consistent spacings and indents:
>
> yes ... being a bit religious about indents etc DOES make things easier.
> I fall into that trap from time to time and lining things up ALWAYS
> makes things stand out better.
When editing complex, nested equations in Excel, whenever you cursor past a
parentheses, it highlights it, and its matching counterpart. Something like
this would be useful - not sure how tough it would be to implement.
Changing the color of defined variables would be useful for spotting misspelled
variable names.
Which brings me a question I had - POV-Ray highlights sind(theta) in purple,
even though I hadn't included the math.inc file. Why? It confused the heck out
of me!
I wound up using degrees ( sin (theta) ) until I found the problem! Arrrrgh.
I suppose that it might be possible to write a separate "spell checking" script
to check for syntax - at least the "obvious" stuff.
I almost got snagged by an extra /*
it was nested inside another /* ... */ block, and POV-Ray wanted the second */.
Concerning the original topic, the solutions proposed seem like sort of a
"cheat" or workaround. Is there a way to actually _specify_ random or varying
_textures_ rather than defining textures with random _pigments_?
It would be nice to cycle through all of the P_WoodGrain_XX textures on blocks
by varying XX.
This might be potential solution.
http://news.povray.org/518c3b60%241%40news.povray.org
and I remember coming across this:
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.tutorials/thread/%3C3f13449b$1@news.povray.org%3E/
which seemed like there could be a way to "sanitize" the string-nature of WoodA
in something like or else "fool" POV-Ray into thinking it's not a string
anymore.
#declare WoodA = concat ("P_WoodGrain", str (X, 0, 0), "A")
#declare WoodA = texture { WoodA }
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