Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> As for your problem:
> superellipsoid {<0, 0>
> 
> This may be a problem later. According to the POV-Ray documentation,
> "The roundedness value Round determines the roundedness of the edges and
> has to be greater than zero and smaller than one."
> This isn't your real problem, though. The problem is here:
> 
> texture {T_Wood1}
> finish {phong 1 phong_size 300} <---this makes a new texture layer!
> 
> I assume you tried to change the finish of the T_Wood1 texture, but what
> you really did was make a layered texture, putting a different finish on
> the second layer, which used the default texture for it's pigment and
> normal. Since the default pigment is opaque black, your superellipsoid's
> wood texture gets covered up with a black texture using the finish you
> specified.
> To change the finish of the T_Wood1 texture, you need to put the new
> finish *inside* the texture block:
> texture {T_Wood1
>     finish {phong 1 phong_size 300}
> }
> 

I first thought you were right, but with

superellipsoid {
<0,0> 
scale <1,3,100> translate <40,1,0>
texture {T_Wood1 
    finish {phong 1 phong_size 300}      
}
} 

it stays black because of the the zero parameters.  It doesn't matter in the
end, because both things should be changed.

Christoph

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