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4 Nov 2024 13:03:49 EST (-0500)
  Re: eval_pigment and uv_mapping?  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 30 Nov 2003 16:02:04
Message: <k72q91-6ov.ln1@triton.imagico.de>

> High!
> 
> While testing my new "greypat2mesh" macro with various pigment pattern,

> I had to notice the eval_pigment obviously doesn't allow the use of
> uv_mapping with the pigment to be evaluated - I alway get the error
> message "The 'uv_mapping' pattern cannot be used as part of a pigment
> function!". Strange... because uv_mapping is rather a pattern modifier
> than a pattern itself!

This is not really correct, uv-mapping is a way to map a pattern on an 
object surface.  Naturally eval_pigment() (or pigment/pattern functions 
in general) can't make use of it in any way.

Christoph

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