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18 Jun 2024 10:14:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parse Error: Cannot layer a patterned texture over another.  
From: b
Date: 24 Sep 2014 12:50:00
Message: <web.5422f53bacd2b05a5b482a740@news.povray.org>
Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:


>
> A material_map is designed to works with palleted images. Using a high
> or true colour leads to problems as you'll need maps spanning a huge
> array of values.
> A material_map DON'T contain materials but textures.
>
> So, you may want to have a palleted, or B&W, source image with one index
> for the water and another for the ground areas. A pure black and white
> image will do just right and will be relatively small as a bonus: 1 bit
> per pixel.
>
> Now, you need to provide the image_map for the ground areas with it's
> finish and normals and a texture for the water areas with the wanted
> specular.
>
>
>
>
> Alain


Hi Alain, You describe perfectly what I'm already doing! It doesn't answer the
question. :-(


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