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From: Kevin Loney
Subject: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 15:40:12
Message: <3bc0af9c$1@news.povray.org>
I've been using povray for close to 2 years and I'm having a prolem thats
probably very simple to solve, but can't seem to do it.

I'll create my scene, add lights and camera. when I run it It displays
nothing. I've tried using this code (in 3.1g and 3.5b), and nothing just a
black image. Am i doing something wrong?

camera {
    location <5, 5, 5>
    look_at <0, 0, 0>
}

light_source {
    <45, 35, 25> color 1
}

sphere {
    <0, 0, 0>, 1
    pigment {
        color 1
    }
}


--
Kevin
http://www.geocities.com/qsquared_1999/


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From: Micha Riser
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 15:54:37
Message: <3bc0b2fd$1@news.povray.org>
Kevin Loney wrote:
> 
> sphere {



> }
> }
> 

"color 1" is interpretated as color rgbft 1 which makes the sphere 
compleatly transparent. Use "color rgb 1" or "color White" instead.

- Micha


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 17:23:23
Message: <3bc0c7cb$1@news.povray.org>
"Micha Riser" <mri### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
news:3bc0b2fd$1@news.povray.org...
> Kevin Loney wrote:
> >
> > sphere {
> > <0, 0, 0>, 1
> > pigment {
> > color 1
> > }
> > }
> >
>
> "color 1" is interpretated as color rgbft 1 which makes the sphere
> compleatly transparent. Use "color rgb 1" or "color White" instead.

    Or just pigment {rgb 1 }


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 17:34:20
Message: <3BC0CA63.153FB729@ignorancia.org>

>     Or just pigment {rgb 1 }

  Or use colors.inc, and then pigment{White}. That's very clear... I
don't understand why people don't use colors.inc more often. I almost
never type "rgb": I'm feel lost finding colors that way. 

--
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org/


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 17:38:03
Message: <3bc0cb3b$1@news.povray.org>
"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
news:3BC0CA63.153FB729@ignorancia.org...

> >     Or just pigment {rgb 1 }
>
>   Or use colors.inc, and then pigment{White}. That's very clear... I
> don't understand why people don't use colors.inc more often. I almost
> never type "rgb": I'm feel lost finding colors that way.

    Funny, I never even use colors.inc anymore. I had a color picker for a
while, but then I got used to rgb and can pretty much type out my color
first or second try. Especially since I rarely want rgb 1 but might want rgb
<1.1, 0.9, 0.9 >


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 17:56:07
Message: <3BC0D0D2.8B0C4562@pacbell.net>
Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote in message
> news:3BC0CA63.153FB729@ignorancia.org...

> > >     Or just pigment {rgb 1 }
> >
> >   Or use colors.inc, and then pigment{White}. That's very clear... I
> > don't understand why people don't use colors.inc more often. I almost
> > never type "rgb": I'm feel lost finding colors that way.
> 
>     Funny, I never even use colors.inc anymore. I had a color picker for a
> while, but then I got used to rgb and can pretty much type out my color
> first or second try. Especially since I rarely want rgb 1 but might want rgb
> <1.1, 0.9, 0.9 >

I find it easier to type rgb 1 that it is to type White. Also, you don't
have to spend time typing #include "colors.inc" into every scene file you
make.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 18:12:33
Message: <3bc0d351@news.povray.org>
"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
>
> I find it easier to type rgb 1 that it is to type White. Also, you don't
> have to spend time typing #include "colors.inc" into every scene file you
> make.

    There's that, but I have insert menus for that (or did, I am still
working on new ones). Mostly I find "white" or "blue" to -not- be what I
want. I want the box of crayons that have the 63 million colors.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 18:51:00
Message: <3BC0DDAF.9FDCF831@pacbell.net>
Bill DeWitt wrote:

>     There's that, but I have insert menus for that (or did, I am still
> working on new ones). Mostly I find "white" or "blue" to -not- be what I
> want. I want the box of crayons that have the 63 million colors.

Same here. I am prefectly comfortable describing my own colors as needed.
But that is the beauty of POV-Ray. People can use it anyway they want
and if some people find using colors.inc easier than designing their own
colors then more power to them.

-- 
Ken Tyler


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 7 Oct 2001 19:11:38
Message: <3bc0e12a$1@news.povray.org>
"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
>
> Same here. I am prefectly comfortable describing my own colors as needed.

    I might be tempted by a color select box  on the tool bar of the editor.
Something that if you clicked on the one out of 16 or somewhere on the
rainbow box it would then type in "rgb <n.nn, n.nn, n.nn >. But anything
else is just too time consuming for the value returned. I dont' even use the
insert menu pigments becuas it takes longer than typing a rgb value.

> But that is the beauty of POV-Ray. People can use it anyway they want
> and if some people find using colors.inc easier than designing their own
> colors then more power to them.

    Sure, and it is good while learning to do other things.


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From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Subject: Re: problem
Date: 8 Oct 2001 04:01:21
Message: <3BC15D57.1B966040@ignorancia.org>

> working on new ones). Mostly I find "white" or "blue" to -not- be what I
> want. I want the box of crayons that have the 63 million colors.

  Oh, well... I never said I use the colors in colors.inc as they are!
;) I use them as a palette of known colors to mix. It is easy for me to
think on something like "White*.9+Red*.1" when a I want a light pink. I
don't care if it's longer and I don't mind typing '#include
"colors.inc"': it is worth for me.

--
Jaime Vives Piqueres

La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
http://www.ignorancia.org/


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