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  Re: Make part of an object transparent  
From: Encore
Date: 7 Nov 2012 17:00:00
Message: <web.509ad972f48acc75eef78c9e0@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 7:41 PM, Encore wrote:
> > Thanks Steve I really appreciate it. But put animation aside (I'll try and deal
> > with this later on), how can I make a fixed part of this object invisible? I
> > mean a way is to make a difference as you are saying,
>
> Okay, I did make an attempt and the code is below. But be aware that I
> use a modeller (Bishop3d) and the code is not good Pov-Ray code. (I have
> to put single objects in a union to get the desired effect. Nor is it
> optimised. (machine written code sucks ;-) )
>
> > another is to trace and
> > return a transparent value for a specific part of an edge. Do you have any code
> > for achieving this in a static state like the one I'm dealing with here?
>
> This I would say is more of a general or advanced topic.
>

Wow man this looks really awesome for an initial state of what I'm trying to
achieve! A few modification needed to be made in the rotation and scale values
for the difference box (and still having a small gap there that's visible), but
other than that this looks great! Thanks a lot


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