Skip Talbot wrote:

> That's quite an improvement.  Thanks for posting an example, as I'm sure
> many of us couldn't quite grasp what had changed.  Now, can I wait for an
> HDRI equipped POV 3.6  :)
> 
> Skip


Skip,

With these new changes it is possible to make images using hdri and 
radiosity. For a false-color (color that you add) implementation, use an 
image_map mapped to a sky_sphere, and give the new colors ridiculously 
high values.

An example might look something like this:

sky_sphere{
  pigment{
   pigment_pattern{
    image_map{
     tga"my_image.tga" interpolate 2 map_type 1
    }
   }
   color_map{
    [0 rgb 0]
    [.5 rgb<1 2 10>]
    [1 rgb 10]
   }
  }
}

You can make your own color_map for an image by placing the image_map 
statement inside a 'pigment_pattern' block.

Standard pitfalls and benefits usually associated with hdri imaging 
probably apply to doing this.... you might want to use a low-res image 
for the hdri, and a hi-res image to be viewed in the background. Might 
have to make one of the sky_spheres a real sphere with no_image added...

-Sam Benge

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