"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> Just playing around trying to add a Pov CSG object (the tripod) into a photo.

Very cool!  :)

> Then I found someone who (can't recall who) mentioned using no_object to create
> a scene with just the shadows which I could then merge (using code from Robert's
> method) to render combine the shadow and image data.

Thanks for the reminder - I ​had a no_shadow method you might be
interested in too:
http://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3C6090c6ac%241%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=434002

> I really have no idea what I am doing here but it seemed to work better than
> expected. I could probably improve it by adding steps to my shadow scene so the
> shadow raises but I would then have to lift up one of the Tripod legs as they
> are currently all at the same level and as the Tripod is a CSG model that would
> be a lot more effort than I have time for.

"by adding steps to my shadow scene so the shadow raises"...?

You mean so that you get self-shadowing of the legs?

Can you just add some sort of shell of the legs (scale 1.0001) over the actual
legs and use a y gradient between rgb shadowVal and rgbt1 to fake the
self-shadowing?

Or maybe just shift the actual leg geometry a bit toward the camera and use the
same pigment gradient as a shadow overlay.

Or something like that..

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