POV Commnunity:

I may be missing something, but this is what is frustrating me:
I created a bezier patch, after editing,  I give it a simple grass texture,
I select the texture and resize, rotate, etc., I then copy and paste this
object, rotate it 180 degrees and than change the texture on the copied
object to a simple stone texture, than when I select the texture it is not
where it was.  If I change it back to grass texture, it returns so I can
edit size, rotate, etc., but again once I change to stone texture and I
select texture I can't find it on the screen. I have tried all three space
positions (Local, Parent, World),  the stone texture is getting rendered (it
doesn't look right), but I can not view it on screen to edit it with my
mouse. I can type in changes but since I can't see the texture I have to
keep rendering to see what is changing.  And this is Frustrating.  Any
comments / suggestions would be appreciated.  My thoughts are maybe I've
done something wrong with grouping or parenting.

Thank you very much for your time
Bill Paulson
Pau### [at] hotmailcom

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Hi!
Aren't your textures respectively grass: image_map and stone: procedural
pattern?
Moray can't display procedural textures, only image_mapped textures.


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Marc
jac### [at] wanadoofr
http://www.marcjacquier.fr.st/

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Hey Marc,
Thanks, you are correct, I am using different types of texture, and I am
going to look into this with a new scene and see if I can duplicate my
problem with image maps. This is probably a beginner question, but why when
I use a wood texture, I can select the texture, rotate, size, etc., just
like image maps, but I can't select and edit a stone texture directly.  Also
when I use the stone texture it looks like it needs rotated and resized, so
is my only option of editing, to type in the value to rotate 90 degrees and
resize the texture.
I guess I've mostly used image maps and I've gotten used to editing the
texture directly.
Again thanks for your time.
Bill Paulson < Pau### [at] hotmailcom>



"Marc Jacquier" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
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> Hi!
> Aren't your textures respectively grass: image_map and stone: procedural
> pattern?
> Moray can't display procedural textures, only image_mapped textures.
>
>
> --
> Marc
> jac### [at] wanadoofr
> http://www.marcjacquier.fr.st/
>
>

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Hi Bill,

like Marc said, Moray cannot display a procedural texture, since it
doesn't know how it might look. Exceptions (like checker, hexagon) to
this can be rendered because they have well defined shapes/boundaries.
Maybe the stone one could also get a proxy wireframe, but I'm not sure
whether that's a stock POV-Ray texture....

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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> Hi Bill,
>
> like Marc said, Moray cannot display a procedural texture, since it
> doesn't know how it might look. Exceptions (like checker, hexagon) to
> this can be rendered because they have well defined shapes/boundaries.
> Maybe the stone one could also get a proxy wireframe, but I'm not sure
> whether that's a stock POV-Ray texture....
>
In pov some paterns are simply  geometrical as wood (concentrical
cylinders), onion (concentrical spheres), gradient (linear), etc... and can
be figured by a schematic proxy.
some others are noise or fractal noise based (bozo, agate, wrinkles...) and
can't be figured by a simple proxy

Marc

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