James wrote:

> Thank you for telling me about that book.  If anyone knows of an up-to-date
> book for POV-Ray please tell me about it.
>
> Ron Parker wrote in message <369fa5b4.0@news.povray.org>...
> >On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:18:44 -0500, Jim Kress <jim### [at] dccmailcom> wrote:
> >>There are no such books.  POV scene language is unique to POV.  It kinda
> >>looks like C but getting a book on the C language will not help you learn
> to
> >>write POV files in POV scene language.
> >
> >Knowing C will not help you with POV.  It only looks like C because
> >of all the curly braces.  The procedural parts of it are a lot more
> >like BASIC than like C.  The declarative parts are unlike any other
> >mainstream language.
> >
> >There once was such a book, Ray Tracing Creations by Drew Wells and
> >Chris Young, published by Waite Group Press.  It is now out of print
> >(and, IIRC, the publisher is out of business) and in any case only
> >applies to POV 2.2 and earlier.  Anything you could do in 2.2 you
> >can still do in 3.1, however, so if you can find a copy at your local
> >library or used book store, and you absolutely need something you can
> >read on the plane, it might be worth it.  Just keep in mind that
> >there is now far more that can be done with POV than could be done
> >when that book was written.  For example, it doesn't cover the
> >procedural parts of POV at all, because they were added in version
> >3.0.

Look to the glossary of the povray documentation for a list of
books that might be useful to mastering this program.

Let me also say that what others have said about going through
the documentation, playing with the example scene files, changing
things and to see what happens, will teach you more than any books
can. These news groups are also a wealth of information and you
will find no finer, friendlier, and helpfull group of people anywhere
in the world bar none.

--
Ken Tyler

tyl### [at] pacbellnet

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