POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray Installation thread : Re: POV-Ray Installation thread Server Time
5 May 2024 08:23:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray Installation thread  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 14 May 2021 17:09:10
Message: <609ee6f6$1@news.povray.org>
On 5/14/21 10:20 AM, Alain Martel wrote:

>> hi,
>>
>> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> // This a povr branch only example!
>>> ...
>>> #declare Nrml00 = normal {



>>
>> the line above (28) gives me trouble.
>>
>>


>>> }
>>
> 
> In an average, the control values determine the weight of that part. So, 
> that [0 bevy type 1 bump_size 0.5] mean zero weight, zero contribution. 
> This mean that it could be removed without affecting the final result.
> That zero weight may be the cause of your problem.
> 

With povr the zero weight is part of the trick to pass the results of 
this map entries normal perturbation to bevy type 4 so what you get is a 
chain of perturbations ending in one result and not some average on 
perturbation results.

That said, your suggestion should still work, but will result in a 
normal both averaged and chained... Not something I've actually tried. 
I'd guess it would come in as a mix of the lower two images.

All of the bevy stuff is still sitting only on my machine. I haven't 
released it.

Bill P.


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