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6 Sep 2024 06:23:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Text in Stone?  
From: Johannes Hubert
Date: 5 Jan 1999 08:26:43
Message: <36921313.0@news.povray.org>
Cindy wrote in message <36920E2C.4695C113@REMOVEearthlink.net>...
>How would one accomplish this?  I am trying to make an alter with a
>message inscribed into it.
>


One simple solution:

Create your altar stone.
Create your text (as a TrueType object).
Position the text correctly on the stone (as seen from the front, or
whatever viewing angle seems right), then "submerge" it a little bit "into"
the stone, just as deep as you want the "carving" to reach.
Then combine those two objects in a difference CSG (read up on CSG and
differences in the docs a bit). This "cuts out" the text from the altar.

Greetings,
Johannes.


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