POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : i_dat3d & *.df3 : Re: i_dat3d & *.df3 Server Time
2 Sep 2024 06:13:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: i_dat3d & *.df3  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 28 Jul 2000 19:40:45
Message: <slrn8o4786.oph.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:27:22 -0400, david sharp wrote:
>
>Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote
>
>> Why is it necessary?  Can't you just use the pigment function with a
>> pigment defined by the df3 file?
>
>The df3 reading was added to the dat3d/dat2d functions just because
>it seemed logical that as long as there already existed a POV 3d data
>format, the dat3d/2d functions should be able to use it.

Fair enough.  More than anything, I was just trying to offer an alternative,
since it didn't seem to work.

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


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