In article <3aacf34b@news.povray.org>, Geoff Wedig 
<wed### [at] darwinepbicwruedu> wrote:

> I'm trying to use the proximity pattern in a normal.  However, MP0.7 
> is telling me that it isn't finding a normal type.  I thought perhaps 
> I needed to add something like bozo, but if I do it before, it balks 
> at the proximity ("no } found, found proximity instead").  If I do it 
> after, it breaks the other way.  It looks to me like the proximity 
> pattern is recognized as a pattern but isn't *set* as the pattern, so 
> when it gets to the end of the normal, it bombs.

You were putting "bozo" alongside the proximity{} block? That won't 
work, you can only specify a single pattern for a normal. When it 
finishes parsing the first pattern and finds another one, of course it 
gives an error.
Did you try commenting out the proximity{} block and using only bozo or 
another pattern? I don't think the proximity pattern is the problem 
here...


>   normal_map
>   {
>     [0 .5 ]
>     [0.19 .5 ]
>     [.2 1 ]
>     [.3 .5 ]
>     [1  .5 ]
>   }

This isn't the syntax for normal_maps...you need to put a normal 
modifier in the entries, not a float value. I suspect you want a 
slope_map...but even then, this is the wrong syntax, slope_maps take 2D 
vectors.
Also, there is an extra "}" in the code you posted...but I assume that 
is just a cut-n-paste error.

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