Are they bounded in any way?  That could clip them if so I guess.
You don't mention what objects are involved (box, etc.) in the CSG.

Bob

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sorry
the top is csg box differenced by four cylinders to trim the edges, and the
legs are translational sweeps (only because I thought I'd taper them)

no bounding boxes I'm aware of, and there is 1 sweep, and 3 references to
that.  The sweeps are 2 units high, and the cut off seems to be at the 1
unit line.

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do you get the same results against a white background?

"Dean MacIsaac Jr." wrote:
> 
> In the moray.binaries area I posted a mdl file of a table I'm creating, but
> when I put it in my scene and light it,
> half the legs disappear.  at first I thought it was shadow, but then i put a
> light right in the middle of the legs, and still the same.
> 
> any suggestions would be appreciated/
> 
> thanks,
> Dean
> 
> ps if you use the animation plugin and render from that in raytracer mode,
> you can see it in white without texturing it's odd. half legs

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i just rendered your table and it came out fine.  i used a white
background.  by the way, is there a reason you used groups instead of
csg?  if i remember correctly, groups are moray specific and don't
translate to anything pov.  i could be wrong.  i just always use csg.

ryan constantine wrote:
> 
> do you get the same results against a white background?
> 
> "Dean MacIsaac Jr." wrote:
> >
> > In the moray.binaries area I posted a mdl file of a table I'm creating, but
> > when I put it in my scene and light it,
> > half the legs disappear.  at first I thought it was shadow, but then i put a
> > light right in the middle of the legs, and still the same.
> >
> > any suggestions would be appreciated/
> >
> > thanks,
> > Dean
> >
> > ps if you use the animation plugin and render from that in raytracer mode,
> > you can see it in white without texturing it's odd. half legs

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Got it

I was doing quick renders using the animation plugin renderer set to
raytracing for whatever reason it croaks at one unit for the legs.  Povray
rendered fine

Xander any thoughts?

I apologize for posting all this binary stuff in the wrong place.  I posted
in both, but the thread took off here.

my last attachment for this group, I promise, will be the scene file.  It
almost looks as if it has something to do with my texture ballwood not sure
though.


RYAN,
groups worked if not translated into anything in POV, however, In my
organizational thought groups aren't csg (a group of non attached legs) vs.
the csg of the tabletop and cylinders.  It's just in my head.

Thanks for the help apparently it's in the animation plugin raytracer.

my next question is this what are the green things attached to the texture
that show up in my modeling space.  I can select them, and move them, but
what are they?
Dean

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Attachments:
Download 'table2.mdl.dat' (6 KB)

Hi Dean MacIsaac Jr., you recently wrote in moray.win:

> my next question is this what are the green things attached to the texture
> that show up in my modeling space.  I can select them, and move them, but
> what are they?
They are texture proxies. They help you see where your texture is
placed.
- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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"Dean MacIsaac Jr." wrote:
> 
> Got it
> 
> I was doing quick renders using the animation plugin renderer set to
> raytracing for whatever reason it croaks at one unit for the legs.  Povray
> rendered fine
> 
> Xander any thoughts?

Sure - my first thought is I have a bug to find.  I'll look it over and
see what's going on.

Xander

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I found the bug.  Turns out I wasn't paying proper attention to the
zmin/zmax values for a translation sweep (a box might have been better
for your particular scene anyway...).  You can get around it for now by
making the sweep go from 0 -> 1 in z and using scaling to make it the
right size.  Will be fixed in next version.

Xander

Alexander Enzmann wrote:
> 
> "Dean MacIsaac Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Got it
> >
> > I was doing quick renders using the animation plugin renderer set to
> > raytracing for whatever reason it croaks at one unit for the legs.  Povray
> > rendered fine
> >
> > Xander any thoughts?
> 
> Sure - my first thought is I have a bug to find.  I'll look it over and
> see what's going on.
> 
> Xander

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Thanks for the info, I had something else in mind when I made the legs,
didn't work out, and just left them as a sweep.  Anyway looking forward to
the next version, I've had fun with this so far.

Maybe you can help I am doing a large anim, with your plug in, and would
like to know if there is a setting to ortho the camera throughout the anim,
and if so can it be turned on and off at different points?  Just checking

Thanks again,
Dean

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"Dean MacIsaac Jr." wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info, I had something else in mind when I made the legs,
> didn't work out, and just left them as a sweep.  Anyway looking forward to
> the next version, I've had fun with this so far.
> 
> Maybe you can help I am doing a large anim, with your plug in, and would
> like to know if there is a setting to ortho the camera throughout the anim,
> and if so can it be turned on and off at different points?  Just checking

Nope - it's not something that Moray supports for cameras, so I'm not
storing that sort of flag with cameras.  Will fix in the future if
cameras change.

Xander

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