POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Terrain? : Re: Terrain? Server Time
5 Sep 2024 08:20:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Terrain?  
From: Bob H 
Date: 3 Jun 2001 01:39:58
Message: <3b19cdae@news.povray.org>
"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
news:chr### [at] povrayorg...
>
> The eval_pigment() and eval_pattern() functions won't work with the
> slope pattern...the slope pattern requires a ray intersection with a
> surface, but those functions only provide a point.

Scratch that off the list then.

> However, you could use other patterns to provide variation in the grass
> through the eval_*() functions, and use the trace() function to
> implement your own slope-dependant placement. A better idea might be to
> just use one of the grass includes...I'm sure there is one with this
> stuff already implemented.

Was counting on there being some way, the more difficult and the easier.

Bob H.


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