POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Problem Patch : Re: Problem Patch Server Time
13 Aug 2024 03:17:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Problem Patch  
From: gk
Date: 16 May 2003 02:09:39
Message: <3ec480a3@news.povray.org>
Tim McMurdo wrote:
> Here is my problem:
> 
> Each of the sails is made from a single patch. the texture is a simple plain
> white pigment. So why are parts of some sails missing? I have not changed
> anything in the model at all. I did place the ship in Gilles Tran's
> MakeCloud2 Sea scene to test his water formula ( Sea and Sky Sphere only)&
> that is when the problem appeared. Now, even with all of his scene removed,
> the missing parts of the sails remain missing. What could force only part of
> a single patch disapear even after the scene elements were removed?
> 
> If I place the model in a totally new file, the sails return to normal. I am
> completely stumped.

This is known bug with bicubic patches.
Use patched version, e.g. mlpov:
http://pov.monde.free.fr/mael/mlpov081eng.html

Gleb


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