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From: Shay
Subject: I can only get 2D letters from circletext macro
Date: 14 Dec 2000 17:49:11
Message: <3a394e67$1@news.povray.org>

I have been experimenting with Ron Parker's circle text macro, but have been
unable to give any height to my letter objects.

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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: I can only get 2D letters from circletext macro
Date: 14 Dec 2000 18:12:26
Message: <slrn93ikv0.3bk.ron.parker@fwi.com>

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:49:27 -0600, Shay wrote:
>I have been experimenting with Ron Parker's circle text macro, but have been
>unable to give any height to my letter objects.

The "depth" parameter to the macro should give you all the height you can
stand.  I forget which one it is, but I think I set it to something really
tiny like .001 in my sample code.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: I can only get 2D letters from circletext macro
Date: 14 Dec 2000 23:29:12
Message: <3a399e18@news.povray.org>

"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote :
>
> The "depth" parameter to the macro should give you all the height

    Not complaining because:

    1) I like the macro and thank you for sharing it
    2) I like the humor of "depth" giving Height

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From: Shay
Subject: I feel very, very stupid.
Date: 15 Dec 2000 10:18:41
Message: <3a3a3651$1@news.povray.org>

I feel so very, very stupid. I was adjusting the height, but because of the
lighting couldn't see that I was. I went so far as to print out the
circletext macro and go over it several times trying to find something I had
missed. After spending at least 90 minutes trying to figure it out, I felt
like a real idiot when the true nature of the problem occured to me.

Thank you very much for the help Ron.

Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:49:27 -0600, Shay wrote:
> >I have been experimenting with Ron Parker's circle text macro, but have
been
> >unable to give any height to my letter objects.
>
> The "depth" parameter to the macro should give you all the height you can
> stand.  I forget which one it is, but I think I set it to something really
> tiny like .001 in my sample code.
>
> --
> Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
> My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: I can only get 2D letters from circletext macro
Date: 20 Dec 2000 14:41:11
Message: <slrn9422qo.i6.ron.parker@fwi.com>

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:29:17 -0500, Bill DeWitt wrote:
>    2) I like the humor of "depth" giving Height

Well, it really gives depth, along the Z axis, but since the original poster
called it height I just followed suit.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: I can only get 2D letters from circletext macro
Date: 20 Dec 2000 15:17:05
Message: <3a4113c1@news.povray.org>

"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:29:17 -0500, Bill DeWitt wrote:
> >    2) I like the humor of "depth" giving Height
>
> Well, it really gives depth, along the Z axis, but since the original
poster
> called it height I just followed suit.

    Rats! One of the redeeming absurdities of life erased by pragmatic
mundanity.

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