"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> Thanks, Tim, that works a treat.
>
> A.D.B.
>
> "Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > The problem is too many control points in a small space.
> > This is similar to other floating point accuracy issues, because
> > of floating point errors some of the points in your lathe are
> > doubling back, or coincident. A work-around is to scale up your
> > lathe's control points, then scale down the lathe to the desired size.
> > ....

Hey Anthony,

Congrat on the nice bulbs.





I tried to use an image for the bulb material, but I cannot scale it.

Here is my code, can you point out what I am doing wrong?

Thank you.

Leef_me


//start

#include "xmas_bulb.inc"


#version 3.6;

#include "colors.inc"

global_settings {
  assumed_gamma 1.0
}

// ----------------------------------------

camera {
  location  <0.0, 0.5, -8.0>
  direction 1.5*z
  right     x*image_width/image_height
  look_at   <0.0, 0.0,  0.0>
}

sky_sphere {
  pigment {
    gradient y
    color_map {
      [0.0 rgb <0.6,0.7,1.0>]
      [0.7 rgb <0.0,0.1,0.8>]
    }
  }
}

light_source {
  <0, 0, 0>            // light's position (translated below)
  color rgb <1, 1, 1>  // light's color
  translate <-30, 30, -30>
}



#declare bulb = material {
             texture {
        pigment { image_map { jpeg "Dime_front.jpg" map_type 1
        } scale 0.01
   }
  }
}
#declare capq2 = material {
             texture {
        pigment { rgb <1,1,0>
        }
   }
}

#declare place = transform {
        translate <0,0,0>
        rotate y*360*clock
}

ChristmasBulb(bulb, capq2, 0, place)


//end

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