Great, hope they see a better way for doing that.  I don't like having to
work around it, I build up a bunch of layers instead, guess something like
Peter does.  Must be something in the layering routine like a wrapper not
being accessible within another, don't you think?

Bob

Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote in message
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> On 23 Nov 1999 11:29:02 -0500, Nieminen Juha
> <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote:
>
> >  When I was making my irtc animation entry, povray told me this:
> >
> >error: Cannot layer over a patterned texture.
> >
> >  Why not?
>
> I have run into the same problem more than once in the past and have
> always achieved good results by nesting the patterned texture into the
> one I couldn't layer, more precisely supplementing all clear parts
> with the aforementioned patterned texture. Personally I don't see it
> as a bug but rather a limitation in POV (it does give a proper error
> message :) ) but have no answer as to why such a limitation exists. I
> will approach the Team with this question and see if they have an
> answer.
>
>
> Peter Popov
> ICQ: 15002700

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