Hi,

I just brought Texture Library version 4.0 online. If you know version 
3.0 on texlib.povray.org you may be interested in the new one as well - 
http://www.rene-schwietzke.de/povray/texlib/

Version 4.0 features:
- a complete new design, lean and fast
- every texture is shown in 8 demo scenes
- textures are grouped by categories and colors
- textures can be browsed by name or category
- textures can be listed by name, include file, color, category, author

The current version features contains only textures from textures.inc 
but the library will be enhanced step by step with more textures (just 
give my computer some time to render the demo scenes).

Any comment is appreciated. Feel free to contact me.

Enjoy Texlib 4.0,
Rene

P.S. As soon as Texlib 4.0 will have reached a mature state, it will be 
mirrored on texlib.povray.org.
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On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 20:21:40 +0100 Rene Schwietzke wrote:

>I just brought Texture Library version 4.0 online.

  Thank you, Rene - version 4.0 looks very nice :)

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Alan
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Alan Kong wrote:
>   Thank you, Rene - version 4.0 looks very nice :)
> 
Thank you. Do you miss anything? Texture information, and certain kind 
of demo scene, or ways to search for a texture?

Rene

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<<A capability of downloading a texture does not imply any right of using it
freely. Please check the overview page of the texture for private and
commercial usage information. Check also the texture include file for usage
restrictions. If you have any quesitons, please contact the author directly.
>>


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Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
> :-|
> 
> 
I am not a native speaker, I do not get your point. Please help me!

Rene

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On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 16:34:06 +0100 Rene Schwietzke wrote:

>Thank you. Do you miss anything? Texture information, and certain kind 
>of demo scene, or ways to search for a texture?

  It works for me. Others may have suggestions for improvement. It loads
fast (I'm on cable modem) and the layout is very intuitive, IMO. It also
looks nice!

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Alan
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a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g

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Rene Schwietzke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just brought Texture Library version 4.0 online. If you know version
> 3.0 on texlib.povray.org you may be interested in the new one as well -
> http://www.rene-schwietzke.de/povray/texlib/
> [...]

Looks like a lot of work - a few remarks:

- it is quite unusable in Netscape 4.x although i can't find a good reason
why it has to be.  
- an option for downloading the whole library would be great.
- the lot of different sample renders look quite nice but some are a bit
unnecessary (for example the 2d rotation/scaling tests).  The preview
should IMO contain a sphere object so you can see at the first glance what
kind of finish and normal it has (highlights, variable reflection, ...)
The 'shapes' render contains various shapes but lacks a rough surface
(heightfield or isosurface for example).  
- the water texture should get an interior with ior to look realistic.  
- maybe it would be a good idea to add a 'purpose specific render' - a sky
sphere for sky textures, a plane with a sky for water textures, ...

Christoph

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"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3E197D78.E65914E4@gmx.de...

Hi Chris,

thank you for the comments, see me answers below:

> - it is quite unusable in Netscape 4.x although i can't find a good reason
> why it has to be.
It is HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS 1.0/2.0. It was my intention to produce clean
and lean HTML code, there are enough good browsers for all platforms, so I
do not want to support the old Netscape stuff anymore. Mozilla 1.2, Netscape
6 and 7, IE 5,5.5,6.0 are fine.

> - an option for downloading the whole library would be great.
Do you mean an offline version?

> - the lot of different sample renders look quite nice but some are a bit
> unnecessary (for example the 2d rotation/scaling tests).
Why is the 2d scaling and rotation not necessary? Do you know better scenes
instead?

>The preview should IMO contain a sphere object so you can see at the first
glance what
> kind of finish and normal it has (highlights, variable reflection, ...)
The previews are quite small images and therefore the space might not be
enough to show this already in the preview.
I will give it a try, maybe I find a scene. It takes time to re-render the
library, so please be patient.  I am going to post a demo image in the
binaries.images group.

> The 'shapes' render contains various shapes but lacks a rough surface
> (heightfield or isosurface for example).
On its way...thanks.

> - the water texture should get an interior with ior to look realistic.
> - maybe it would be a good idea to add a 'purpose specific render' - a sky
> sphere for sky textures, a plane with a sky for water textures, ...
I plan an additional scene depending on special characteristics and
categories,such as Water, Sky, Glass. A demo is going to be posted in the
p.b.images group soon.

Thank you and stay tuned, the library will grow and change a lot,
Rene
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Rene Schwietzke
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http://www.rene-schwietzke.de/

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Rene Schwietzke wrote:
> 
> It is HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS 1.0/2.0. It was my intention to produce clean
> and lean HTML code, there are enough good browsers for all platforms, so I
> do not want to support the old Netscape stuff anymore. Mozilla 1.2, Netscape
> 6 and 7, IE 5,5.5,6.0 are fine.

Well, it is of course up to you how to design the page but i meant i did
not recognize any elements in your page that seem impossible to be created
in a way not messing up the page in NS 4.x.  Of ocurse not everything will
be visible in NS 4.x as in newer browsers but it could be usable.  

> > - an option for downloading the whole library would be great.
> Do you mean an offline version?

Yes.

> > - the lot of different sample renders look quite nice but some are a bit
> > unnecessary (for example the 2d rotation/scaling tests).
> Why is the 2d scaling and rotation not necessary? Do you know better scenes
> instead?

I meant totally dripping it.  The first line of 3D spheres in those
pictures already gives all information - the other two lines are quite
redundant.  

> >The preview should IMO contain a sphere object so you can see at the first
> glance what
> > kind of finish and normal it has (highlights, variable reflection, ...)
> The previews are quite small images and therefore the space might not be
> enough to show this already in the preview.

I think with the size of preview it would be just fine.

Christoph

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:15:12 +0100, "Rene Schwietzke"
<ren### [at] reneschwietzkede> wrote:
> > - an option for downloading the whole library would be great.
> Do you mean an offline version?

What about HtmlHelp produced from time to time?

btw: at the "Contribution" section I can't find specification of the targeted
POV-Ray. Do you accept only 3.5 ? 3.1 ? MegaPOV 0.7 ? 1.0 ?

ABX

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