Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
> Mike Williams wrote:
> > Wasn't it Marc who wrote:

> >> 45109940@news.povray.org...
> >>> In honor of the newly named dwarf planet Eris, I present two different
> >>> reflective chaos spheres over a double checkered plane. I don't like the
> >>> lighting on the glass one, but I have a lot to learn about photons.
> >>>
> >>> I think that if it is going to stay as my desktop background, I need to
> >>> have the sphere reflecting the icons on my desktop.
> >> Nice to get icons reflected maybe you could try a desktop screenshot with a
> >> green background that you get transparent in a image editor and map it on a
> >> plane behind the camera
> >
> > I'd never thought of reflecting the icons.
> >
> > I did one use that method to have faint reflections of my face in the
> > shiny objects on the desktop image. So that when I looked at the
> > desktop, I could see myself reflected from those objects.
> >
>
> Took a screencap of the desktop with just bright pink as the background,
> since some icons have blues and greens that seemed like a good color to
> use. GIMP's color to alpha tool, then saved it as a png. Right now that
> is mapped onto a cube just in front of the camera with no_image and
> no_shadow. It still reflects as solid black though, I havn't messed
> around with figuring out why.

Have you tried giving it a finish with ambient 1 and diffuse 0?


-tgq

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