Hi,

I am new to ray tracing and POV-Ray and am trying to create a brass cylinder
to start on a homework assignment to trace an orrery. I was wondering what
the differences between the metals in textures.inc and metals.inc are?

Thanks very much.

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In article <web.3fb6eeaef1b1204c1edc13cd0@news.povray.org>,
 "cg-hci_novice" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> I am new to ray tracing and POV-Ray and am trying to create a brass cylinder
> to start on a homework assignment to trace an orrery. I was wondering what
> the differences between the metals in textures.inc and metals.inc are?

texture.inc contains a wide variety of textures of all types, but 
metals.inc contains...metals. Specifically, many variations of metals of 
each type. The textures in textures.inc are more individual and 
specialized for a particular purpose. Personally, I would suggest you 
only use these textures as a starting point for your own textures. Most 
of them were designed at a time when POV was far more limited, and far 
more realistic textures are possible now.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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Christopher James Huff wrote:
>In article <web.3fb6eeaef1b1204c1edc13cd0[at]news.povray.org>,
> "cg-hci_novice" <nomail[at]nomail> wrote:
>
>> I am new to ray tracing and POV-Ray and am trying to create a brass cylinder
>> to start on a homework assignment to trace an orrery. I was wondering what
>> the differences between the metals in textures.inc and metals.inc are?
>
>texture.inc contains a wide variety of textures of all types, but
>metals.inc contains...metals. Specifically, many variations of metals of
>each type. The textures in textures.inc are more individual and
>specialized for a particular purpose. Personally, I would suggest you
>only use these textures as a starting point for your own textures. Most
>of them were designed at a time when POV was far more limited, and far
>more realistic textures are possible now.
>
>Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
>POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
>http://tag.povray.org/
>

Thanks for the info. Appreciate it.

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