POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Colefax Galaxy Include and 3.5/3.6 : Re: Colefax Galaxy Include and 3.5/3.6 Server Time
28 Jul 2024 16:15:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Colefax Galaxy Include and 3.5/3.6  
From: Joe Moon
Date: 9 Dec 2004 23:05:24
Message: <41b92084$1@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:
>> It's due to the change in how the "gradient" function operates
>> (from v3.1
> 
> to 3.5
> 
>> I think, or was it 3.0 to 3.1?). Somewhere in the include/macro
>> files, the gradient function is used one or more times (I don't
>> remember the
> 
> specifics).
> 
>> Find it(them) and change "gradient y" (or x or z) to "function {
>> abs(y) }"
> 
> (or x
> 
>> or z).

> 
> Crazy... I made almost the exact same post in povray.general. =)
> 
> Speaking of which, Joe, please don't multipost...
> 
> - Slime [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

That seems to have done the trick, though I think there are still subtle
differences in the results of the Galaxy include since 3.1.

Sorry for the cross-post - first time in these newsgroups, and there's 
just so darn many, I wasn't sure where to go.  So I'll just thank 
everyone on this thread :)


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