is there a tutorial on creating media effects with Moray?  I'm totally
confused on this  subject, reading the POV docs has been not much help.

thanks,
scott

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I only know of a couple about absorbing and scattering media.

However, the basic rule for converting your old halos to emissive media is
this:
Make a media, give it a white emission, the create a density. Make a
colormap under that. Use whatever pattern your halo used. Now, here is teh
thing- with media, it will emit whatever color you tell it to. So, since
you cannot emit black light, black is basically transparent. However,
trying to make other colors transparent is impossible, so you just have to
blend them. Put a black on the outside of your colormap, so the container
object cannot be seen.

Scott McDonald wrote:

> is there a tutorial on creating media effects with Moray?  I'm totally
> confused on this  subject, reading the POV docs has been not much help.
>
> thanks,
> scott



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Scott McDonald wrote:
> 
> is there a tutorial on creating media effects with Moray?  I'm totally
> confused on this  subject, reading the POV docs has been not much help.
> 
> thanks,
> scott

Adding to what Alex has already said there is a couple good
online media tutorials located at the link listed below.

http://members.xoom.com/POVRAY3/media1.html
http://members.xoom.com/POVRAY3/media2.html

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Ken wrote:
> 
> Adding to what Alex has already said there is a couple good
> online media tutorials located at the link listed below.
> 
> http://members.xoom.com/POVRAY3/media1.html
> http://members.xoom.com/POVRAY3/media2.html

i've looked through these, will go over them in detail later, but it
doesn't help with Moray - everytime i create a media with Moray that i
think looks good in a preview in the texture editor,  when i render the
actual image (such as a simple sphere) all i get is white noise.   I'll
keep poking around till i figure this out though. <sigh>

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