Heya all,
This is my first post here. I found POV-Ray only a couple of weeks ago
and have been slowly working through the tutorials at the beginning of
the documentation. After doing the different kinds of maps I got to
the average section, upon rendering the image I did not get a "smooth
blend of gradient x with gradient y" but I got a really duff grey
picture with lines crossing it, some black and some white. What
happened, I followed the tutorial? (Windows 3.1e)

Are there any tutorials for DTA? I have had the zip sent to me by a
friend but it did not contain any readme or helps docuents, as such I
am stuck as to how I use the program. The link on Ken's links page for
DTA brings up a 404 so I am stuck with what to do. Could anyone
reccommend an animation program that will create .avi's and possibly
mpeg's? Preferably free.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Xama wrote:
> 
> Heya all,
> This is my first post here. I found POV-Ray only a couple of weeks ago
> and have been slowly working through the tutorials at the beginning of
> the documentation. After doing the different kinds of maps I got to
> the average section, upon rendering the image I did not get a "smooth
> blend of gradient x with gradient y" but I got a really duff grey
> picture with lines crossing it, some black and some white. What
> happened, I followed the tutorial? (Windows 3.1e)

Is this the example you are referring to ?

plane { -z, 0
    pigment { rgb 1}
    normal {
      average
      normal_map {
        [ gradient x ]
        [ gradient y ]
      }
    }
  }

If so it is a normal averaged together and not a pigment. What you are seeing
is probably correct. Try moving your light source and camera to something like

camera { location <0,0,-5> look_at 0 }
light_source {<0,0,-300> rgb 1}

and see if makes it a little more uniform in appearance.

 
> Are there any tutorials for DTA? I have had the zip sent to me by a
> friend but it did not contain any readme or helps docuents, as such I
> am stuck as to how I use the program. The link on Ken's links page for
> DTA brings up a 404 so I am stuck with what to do. Could anyone
> reccommend an animation program that will create .avi's and possibly
> mpeg's? Preferably free.
 
  See the announcement group on this server for a more up to date version
of my links collection. It contains a link to DTA that is not broken.
I will point out though that the current version of DTA is a beta version
and the documentation is extremely poor if not non exsistant. To find
out what paramters to use with it type dta32 at a command prompt and
it will list the available switches that may be used with it. I know
it is confusing but I didn't write the program so don't blame me :)
I would also suggest you look at Main Actor and Smacker both listed in
my links. Several people here seem to like to use CMPeg but I understand
the learning curve for using it is a bit steep and rather confusing.
I have also heard that Fast Movie Processor is another good program
but I have not tried it myself.


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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:51:55 GMT, xam### [at] quayles1demoncouk (Xama)
wrote:

>Heya all,
>This is my first post here. I found POV-Ray only a couple of weeks ago
>and have been slowly working through the tutorials at the beginning of
>the documentation. After doing the different kinds of maps I got to
>the average section, upon rendering the image I did not get a "smooth
>blend of gradient x with gradient y" but I got a really duff grey
>picture with lines crossing it, some black and some white. What
>happened, I followed the tutorial? (Windows 3.1e)

Sorry guys, I should have been more specific, I was trying it with a
normal map, as on page 87 of the 3.1e docs.

>Are there any tutorials for DTA? I have had the zip sent to me by a
>friend but it did not contain any readme or helps docuents, as such I
>am stuck as to how I use the program. The link on Ken's links page for
>DTA brings up a 404 so I am stuck with what to do. Could anyone
>reccommend an animation program that will create .avi's and possibly
>mpeg's? Preferably free.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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>Could anyone
>reccommend an animation program that will create .avi's and possibly
>mpeg's? Preferably free.

I've been looking around for an animation program also. Main Actor seems
to be the best for the price($85.00 if I remember correctly).
But Fast Movie Processor is free for noncommercial use and only $20.00
to register.
Main Actor: http://www.mainconcept.com/
Fast Movie Processor:http://www.gromada.com/fmp.html 
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