Or if you really want to see what can be done with BMRT, look to this page:
http://www.bmrt.org/bmrtgallery.html
Specifically, I'd suggest looking at this image. Its really awsome:
http://www.bmrt.org/bmrtimages/merritt-fruit3.jpg
Nothing in it is an image map- everythings procedural and antialiased.

Alex Magidow wrote:

> AFAIK, you need to set path = youshaderdirectoryhere or add this line of code
> to the RIB file:
> Option "searchpath" "shader" ["youshaderdirectoryhere"]
> the setting the path thing is the best idea, IMO.
>
> "Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
>
> > its quite nice to see there is very little differemce in these two renders,
> > kinda shows the quality of povray.
> >
>
> Well, depends on what you mean by quality. POV-Ray doesn't have programmable
> shaders...I'd rather dare you to compare the quality of the two when that is
> taken into consideration. The shadows are a bit weird, as they don't seem to be
> in the renderman standard(and the usual arealight trick doesn't seem to work
> too well in renderman). But then, neither could you do something like
> windowhighlight.sl- try cutting that from this
> site(http://www.renderman.org/RMR/Shaders/RCShaders/index.html), compiling it,
> then applying it to an object. Its pretty impressive. Or use windowlight
> instead of a standard povray light(just change the name in the RIB file).
>
> >
> > on a side note, i tried a few test renders, but kept getting the message
> > that the povpointlight shader could not be found, even tho it was in my
> > shaders dir, or anywhere i put it.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > "Alex Magidow" <axi### [at] mninternet> wrote in message
> > news:3896DA4D.EEDE9998@mninter.net...
> > > I've attached a couple of zip files, with two images in each. They show
> > > the differences between rendering in POV-Ray and rendering in BMRT. The
> > > UV's seem a bit messed up in the exported RIBs, though...also, the
> > > parameters to the plastic shading style in BMRT are far different from
> > > the parameters to the POV-Ray standard finish for textures.
> > >
> > > --
> > > You Know You've Been Raytracing Too Long When:
> > >   You take your POV-Ray to work and raytrace a little animation while
> > > out for lunch.
> > > Produced by Alex Magidow's Sig File Randomizer(YKYBRTTL jokes courtesy
> > > of c.g.r.raytracing)
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> You Know You've Been Raytracing Too Long When:
>   You take your POV-Ray to work and raytrace a little animation while out for
> lunch.
> Produced by Alex Magidow's Sig File Randomizer(YKYBRTTL jokes courtesy of
> c.g.r.raytracing)

--
You Know You've Been Raytracing Too Long When:
  You take your POV-Ray to work and raytrace a little animation while out for
lunch.
Produced by Alex Magidow's Sig File Randomizer(YKYBRTTL jokes courtesy of
c.g.r.raytracing)

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