Ken wrote:
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> Dearmad wrote:
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>>guts of themath I wanted to use, then transferred them over to another renderer
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> Polyray?


No actually, Hash AM.  POV has surpassed Polyray in what you can do with 
textures (though it took a few years).  Also, I'm now dissatisfied with 
Polyray's colors too.

POV is like my "free hand" procedural texture "sketch pad," where I can 
more fully grasp what to manipulate in order to get the effect I want 
quicker, then into AM I go (which has a POS interface for texture 
design).  I find POV limitless for textures, but maybe that's because I 
lack the imagination and/or math skills to even comprehend a tool with 
more options.

I took it into Hash AM and simplified it a bit in order to be able to 
animate it- although here POV kicks serious butt over AM- you can't get 
at *all* of the math in AM (without headache) so animating a procedural 
is not as powerful as it otherwise could be.

In fact if I could get better separation and sometimes saturation in my 
POV colors I would have used them for the animated sky I need in this 
case and just matted it in, but I just can't get it to fly.

-peter

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