In article <39affc1c$1@news.povray.org>, "David Vincent-Jones" 
<geo### [at] galaxynetcom> wrote:

> I am building a scene where there are a large number of 'nearly 
> identical' items.
> 
> The only difference is that each item has a different number or 
> letter painted on its side. (i.e.. like a set of one color pool 
> balls)
> 
> Because the number of objects is quite large, I would like to use a 
> standard object approach and just do a location transform plus adding 
> the number in the final .pov file.
> 
> Has anybody done anything like this ?

The easiest way to do the balls would be to use a texture using an 
object pattern with a text object to make the different numbers, but 
that requires MegaPOV(in fact, I designed the object pattern with a text 
pattern in mind). You might be able to make a macro which just takes a 
character and color and produces the appropriate ball by doing CSG 
between spheres and text objects, but this is slower and just clumsier.

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Christopher James Huff
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