In article <3898cbd1@news.povray.org>, "Justin Whitton" 
<jus### [at] bigfootcom> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been working on an idea to give my various spaceships "shields" 
> via a shield macro. You should find three attachments:
> 
> 1) Shield_off.jpg - the test object without shield.
> 
> 2) Shield_on.jpg - the test object with shield. (In this example the 
> shield is filled with emission/absorption media with values to 
> enhance the visibility of the edges.)
> 
> 3) shield.zip - zipped copy of shield.pov
> 
> The macro relies on the trace() function in MegaPov, the 
> Shield_on.jpg example uses the solid mesh capabilities of MegaPov to 
> fill the generated mesh with media.


This is one of the things I designed my proximity pattern for...it is 
included in the latest release of MegaPOV, you might want to have a look 
at it. It is probably slower than this method, though...

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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