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1 Aug 2024 08:21:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Crockery Jug  
From: Alain
Date: 20 Sep 2008 17:36:45
Message: <48d56ced$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Holsenback nous illumina en ce 2008-09-20 08:04 -->
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm working on some objects for a scene that have maker marks or 
> decorations. The swan on this jug is from a photograph of an actual jug in 
> my shop. I used Gimp to play with the color map. I saved the gif image with 
> indexed color map, then I was able to use several transmit statements in my 
> image_map statement to isolate the background and image. Before all this I 
> had developed a texture_map that has some age marks (dents), but when I 
> tried to overlay the swan texture onto the crock texture I ran into a 
> problem (can't overlay a texture over a patterned texture). I was however 
> able to at least get it this far when I removed the dents portion of my 
> texture map. Now my jug looks rather sterile and I'd like to age it up a 
> bit. Any ideas on how to do this?
> 
> Jim 
> 
> 
> 
Why bothering using several transparency statements in am image_map? You can set 
your GIF to have one, or several color, as transparent. That way, you can make 
the background disapear.
Or, you could have used a PNG with an alpha channel, and have antialiased 
transparency.

-- 
Alain
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