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Re: Backgrounds in POVray
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Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:39:10 GMT
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:18:42 GMT, wvw@earthlink.net (De Bengel) wrote:

On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 06:45:27 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K)
wrote:
POV-Ray is a royal pain in the butt to use, but that galaxy include
file was a snap.   I wish more things were that easy.

Do you know of some nice planetary surfaces? I have a Lego
Exo-sceleton  that I would like to see on some cratered moonscape ;-)

I would like to see it as well.  :-)
Check here:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/6588/povfind.htm

In the Categories, look at  "Heightfields" and "Planet Images"

The heightfields section has links to some terrain generators that
look promising.  The planet images links are a little less
appropriate, as they basically are used to wrap spheres with a planet
"skin".  Better for backgrounds.

-- Terry K --



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  Re: Backgrounds in POVray
 
(...) <snippage> Views of the Solar System is a very cool site. Funny, I've had it bookmarked for over a year and never thought to use it. Careful, though. Some images are copyrighted, if I remember correctly. Try out this site too. Way cool (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Backgrounds in POVray
 
(...) I guess I need to learn a lot more about POV-Ray. Working with the examples is easy. I got gforge from one of the links, and getting a lunar surface in POV-Ray works. But getting a l3p converted LDraw file to stand on that surface is a (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) Do you know of some nice planetary surfaces? I have a Lego Exo-sceleton that I would like to see on some cratered moonscape ;-) ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (26 years ago, 2-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)

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