In article <web.3f0c91c95c737d0e9cfc34200@news.povray.org>,
 "oldmicah" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Still no luck.  Looking at Woods.inc, I don't see that they have zero'd out
> the ambient in the textures, so I'm guessing that I will have to manually
> copy and paste bits from woods.inc and roll my own wood textures
> incorporating 'finish {ambient 0}'.

    Unfortunately, this is so for many of the textures. Those that do 
not specify an ambient value can be fixed somewhat by using the #default 
directive, but several specify their own ambient values. A lot of them 
were designed in older versions of POV, without things like radiosity. 
As a result, you end up with glowing woods and metals, unrealistic 
glass, etc. I very rarely use the includes any more, except occasionally 
as a basis for a custom texture. The wood includes do not set ambient 
values and provide all the parts for you to make your own, so the 
#default directive will work (you will have to put it before the 
#include, of course).

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