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Anybody that has POV files, may I have one or two? I am trying to learn POV-Ray, and it is damn hard without an example that works well.

Email them to me as attachements or post them here.

 

Thanks

Pyro

 

 

Try this one, it is fairly simple. I wouldn't render it at larger than 320x240, however, unless you are willing to wait for a while. I beefed up some of the settings for more realism, which slows it down a bit.

 

 

// ==== Standard POV-Ray Includes ====

#include "colors.inc" // Standard Color definitions

#include "textures.inc" // Standard Texture definitions

#include "functions.inc" // internal functions usable in user defined functions

 

// radiosity (global illumination) settings

global_settings {

radiosity {

pretrace_start 0.08 // start pretrace at this size

pretrace_end 0.04 // end pretrace at this size

count 350 // higher -> higher quality (1..1600) [35]

nearest_count 7 // higher -> higher quality (1..10) [5]

error_bound 1. // higher -> smoother, less accurate [1.8]

recursion_limit 3 // how much interreflections are calculated (1..5+) [3]

low_error_factor .5 // reduce error_bound during last pretrace step

gray_threshold 0.8 // increase for weakening colors (0..1) [0]

minimum_reuse 0.015 // reuse of old radiosity samples [0.015]

brightness 1 // brightness of radiosity effects (0..1) [1]

 

adc_bailout 0.01/2

normal on // take surface normals into account [off]

//media on // take media into account [off]

//save_file "file_name" // save radiosity data

//load_file "file_name" // load saved radiosity data

//always_sample off // turn sampling in final trace off [on]

//max_sample 1.0 // maximum brightness of samples

}

}

// set a color of the background (sky)

background { color rgb <0.3, 0.3, 0.3> }

 

// perspective (default) camera

camera {

location <0.0, 4.0, -5.0>

look_at <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>

right x*image_width/image_height

}

 

// An area light (creates soft shadows)

// WARNING: This special light can significantly slow down rendering times!

light_source {

0*x // light's position (translated below)

color rgb 1.0 // light's color

area_light

<8, 0, 0> <0, 0, 8> // lights spread out across this distance (x * z)

4, 4 // total number of lights in grid (4x*4z = 16 lights)

adaptive 0 // 0,1,2,3...

jitter // adds random softening of light

circular // make the shape of the light circular

orient // orient light

translate <40, 80, -40> // <x y z> position of light

}

 

 

#declare dimple1 = union

{

 

#declare Count = 0;

#while (Count < 40)

sphere{<0,0,0>, .1 translate x*1.06 rotate y*Count*9}

#declare Count=Count+1;

#end

}

 

#declare dimple2 = object{dimple1 rotate y*4.5}

 

#declare dimple3 = union

{

#declare count2 = 0;

#while (count2<10)

object {dimple1 rotate z*18*count2}

object {dimple2 rotate z*9 rotate z*18*count2}

#declare count2=count2+1;

#end

}

 

difference

{

 

sphere

{<0,0,0>,1}

object{dimple3}

pigment{color White}

finish {specular .5 roughness .007 ambient 0}

rotate y*90

 

}

 

 

 

plane

{ y, -1.0

texture

{

DMFWood6

translate

x*10

rotate y*30

}

finish{ambient 0}

normal

{

wood .075

turbulence 0.04

octaves 3

scale <0.05, .05, 1>

translate x*10

rotate y*30

}

}

 

plane

{ z, 3.0

texture

{

pigment{color Wheat}

finish{specular .15 roughness .03 ambient 0}

normal{bumps .025 scale.15}

}

}

 

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Well, there is a lot to be said for mental anguish, but I would rather save some time if I can. Blender? Okay, I'll check it out.

 

Blender is okay, I've played around with it a little. I still like POV-Ray. To each his own, I quess. If you really want a modeler, may I suggest Moray? It's a wireframe modeler that uses the same primitives as POV-ray, and can even export as a POV file.

 

One of things I like about POV-ray is that you can enter the transforms as math functions that use variables and in some ways treat it almost like a programing language. It was that ability that made this animation a lot easier to make.

 

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I was learning Lightwave, and I've used 3dMax, confusing as hell and so non-intuitive it makes me want to scream. I swear it's ment to be used by Geometry majors or something. I just want to get it to do some simple manipulations and it over complicates things unnessarily.

 

On the otherhand, I enjoyed the little experience I had with Lightwave. Very much easier to use, in my humble opinion. I want to learn to code 4d objects. Is Pov-ray anything like OpenGL?

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