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29 Apr 2024 07:04:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.4.2 Sor code doesn't work  
From: Robert Chaffe
Date: 15 Jul 2002 23:23:09
Message: <3d33919d@news.povray.org>
"Chen Lin" <lin### [at] ivwnetcom> wrote in message news:3d323551@news.povray.org...
> In the first demonstration code of the SOR object, the one that creates a
> "gold cup", the inside of the cup doesn't turn out to be what it should be.
> Instead of the "gold" texture in the cup, there is a dull monotonous, single
> color gray hole where it should be. I'm sure I made no errors typing the
> code because after a while, I went and copy and pasted it into the editor,
> whereupon it still had the same results! Everything except the texture
> inside the cup works.
>
> Considering the fact that I actually am still doing the beginning tutorials,
> you can see I don't know enough to fix this error if there is one. I am
> presuming of course that this is a documentation bug that was caused by the
> update from 3.0 to 3.5, but I may be wrong, it could be a program bug. Can
> someone else try it?

The example image does appear different than the result of the example script.

Add the keyword  open  after the last coordinate in the sor, immediately before the
texture, and it should produce the example
image.

--
Robert Chaffe
http://www.donovansweb.com/~chaffe/


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