In article <3A756155.814B8DA0@spiritone.com>, Josh English 
<eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:

> It is supposed to be leaning against the wall. The edge of the cross 
> is 0.4 units from the wall and it is 1 unit high.

I see...maybe just making it lean at less of an angle would be 
sufficient. It looks like the bottom is about to slide out from under 
it, and seems to need more support.


> I had hoped to make the shadow illustrate that. I'll work on it.

The shadow is what made me think it was leaning against the wall, so I 
guess you were successful.


> > The candle flame...sometimes you need really high density values, 
> > depending on the scale of your scene. Try tripling the emission and 
> > doubling the absorption.
> I'll keep upping it. I had no idea I had to go so high to make that 
> flame visible.. 

It all depends on the scale...I've had to go into the 100's to get the 
right results before.


> then I guess the next step is to make it look good ;)

It looks like you have a good start, just a bit too fat.


> The floor isn't visible. It's a shelf with some darn near invisible 
> braces.

That explains part of the funny perspective...I had mistaken the shelf 
for some kind of bench or stool, and thought those braces were legs. And 
I was wondering what the "shelf" in the title referred to. ;-)
Maybe make it wider, and stack books on it like a bookshelf.


> The pattern on the wall is inexplicable. There are two 
> crackle patterns with the same densities, one of which has 
> transparent bands in it, and the surfaces are less than 0.1 units 
> apart, but the patterns are vastly different. I'll have to rework 
> those into one surface.

Maybe just adding some turbulence would work...


> Thanks, for some reason the paper causes MacMegaPov to crash when it 
> draws a pixel for that paper on my G3, but on my older iMac it works. 
> I suspect it might have something to do with the tga file and the 
> transparenct channel.

Ouch...sounds like a stray pointer somewhere in MegaPOV. Maybe using a 
PNG file would be a workaround...

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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