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17 Aug 2024 10:21:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POVGUI Final  
From: Dave Dunn
Date: 11 Oct 2001 19:31:18
Message: <3BC62BD3.D847DA7F@aol.com>
"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:

> how does it handle csg?

It, um, uh ... cheats. Unions, obviously, are okay. As for difference and
intersection, there is a "ghost object" inside each wireframe (a copy of the
actual object with a Clear pigment, no_shadow and a diffuse value of 0). The
ghost object will cut the wires from the wireframe objects, but will not
"heal them over" as in a real GUI modeler. The way to do CSG is to call the
macros inside object blocks and then use them in CSG as you would any other
object. The render view calls actual POV objects and they, of course,
evaluate as expected.


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