POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Failed : Re: Failed Server Time
7 Aug 2024 07:12:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Failed  
From: Mark Birch
Date: 18 May 2006 23:20:00
Message: <web.446d384fbbca8b234daddc090@news.povray.org>
"Mark Birch" <las### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v2 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > How can I make this look cool?
> >
> > (Text = CSG. The S in particular was very hard; it involves 4 cylinders
> > and 2 cubes. (?!) Lighting is radiosity (bluish) + 1 light sournce
> > ("sun", yellowish). Hmm...)
>
> Instead of using boxes, use prisms with linear_spline to make the letters.
> This will make it easier to clean up the 'N'.
>
> The 'S' could be done with a prism using bezier_spline to get both flat &
> curved surfaces, but you need to know a thing or two about where to put the
> control points.  If you post the code for the 'S' I can do a bezier
> version...

Gaaarrhhh! What am I talking about?

Just use the text{} object in Povray.

Come to think of it, why aren't you using it?


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