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.

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