Starting POV-Ray

My first code for POV-Ray, but my real goal is not to make Sculpties using POV, I would like to get shaded textures...



My POV-Ray settings:

in POVRAY.INI [T type generates TGA files] :

Output_File_Type=T


in QUICKRES.INI :

[128x128, AA 0.3]
Width=128
Height=128
Antialias=On
Antialias_Threshold=0.3

Wow!!! That sounds easy...

What is the script language ? Is it unique to POV Ray ?

Thanks for sharing the information!

Yes, POV.Ray uses his scripts, but it is very powerful and free.
It is the best for me.
Actually I use it for my rendering, and I parse IntelliCad dwg into pov with my lisp.
But to write a sculpties-parser is easy...
Those sculpties are fish-eye view at 360 degree with camera view-point at 0,0,0.
So there are a lot of limits...
But it is interesting to investigate, I think...

PS : the idea is here
http://johannahyacinth.blogspot.com/2007/05/sculpted-prims-with-pov-ray.html
I cleaned the code and I checked the settings for the best dimensions.

So objects are defined by script ?
Maybe it is worthwhile to investigate into this for architectural and/or precise sculpties ?
interesting, at least if there are workarounds for the limitations. The approach seems equal to what we have described for blender here :

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2008/08/10/from-nurbs-to-sculptie/ (using the blender node editor)

and here:

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2008/07/14/sculpted-prims-for-the-blender-purist/ (using (procedural?) textures)

I have to take a look at POV ray soon

This is the code for the POV-Ray cone.



The cone needs the Z top at 0.499 because the Z=0.5 gets strange results.
(The Z at 0.5, top in the cube and in the sphere, works fine...)
Note: POV-Ray uses XZY instead of XYZ.
But it is not important, it is useful to know this matter testing other sculpties....
POV-Ray has boolean operators, and you can use translate < x,y,z >, scale < x,y,z >,
etc.
The order of the transformations is very important.
http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/273/