First of all, you must "Include" your texture resources that you will refer too, in the header of your scene.
#include "colors.inc" #include "textures.inc" #include "metals.inc" #include "skies.inc" #include "glass.inc"This tells the program to refer to those files if you use a previously undefined texture variable. In the texture{ } brackets you describe 3 different effects:
Inside the pigment tags you can put: • rgb<0,0,0> // Makes the color black • rgbf<0,0,0,0.5> // Half transparent • Checker rgb 0, rgb 1The 'f' or 't' added to 'rgb' ajusts the transparency of an object. 0 being solid, 1 being completely transparent. The Checker identifier makes the texture a chess-board looking texture using the next two defined colors, divided by a comma.
This includes: Ambient, diffuse, brilliance, phong, specular, metallic, reflection, refraction, caustics, attenuation , crand, and iridescence, followed by a number value describing it's opacity, or amount. For example: finish{phong 0.8}
This includes: Bumps, dents, wrinkles, ripples, and waves to name a few. For example: normal{bumps 5}
Like all things in POV-Ray, textures and their identifiers can be scaled, rotated and translated. For example: normal{bumps 5 scale 0.3}
In the included files are hundreds of textures stored in a library. By opening up the .inc files in your POV-Ray\include folder you can explore all the millions of options available. The metal textures are stored in metals.inc, glasses in glass.inc and so on. T_Glass1 is a texture, containing two or more texture effects. (pigment, finish, normal) P_WoodGrain4B (woods.inc) is only a pigment, containing only the pigment describers. The colors.inc file includes all the common colors plus hundreds of others, such as: Red = rgb <1,0,0> Green = rgb <0,1,0> Blue = rgb <0,0,1> Yellow = rgb <1,1,0> Cyan = rgb <0,1,1> Magenta = rgb <1,0,1> Clear = rgbf 1 White = rgb 1 Black = rgb 0So with that in mind, to apply a Red pigment to an object you just need to go: pigment{Red}It assumes you have written: pigment{rgb<1,0,0>}
Textures are applied into a primative as such: sphere{0,2 texture{pigment{} finish{} normal{}}}Refer to the material above to play around with your scene's materials. The following is something I created with the scene we made in the last section. #include "colors.inc" #include "textures.inc" #include "metals.inc" #include "skies.inc" #include "glass.inc" sky_sphere{S_Cloud1} camera{location<0,0,-10> look_at 0} light_source{<5,5,-10> 1} background{rgb 1} sphere{<0,0,0>,2 texture{T_Chrome_4C pigment{rgb<1,0,0>}}} torus{4,0.5 rotate -45*x texture{T_Chrome_3B}} cylinder{-4*x,4*x,0.5 texture{T_Glass2}} cone{0,1,4*y,0 rotate -45*x texture{pigment{rgb 1} finish { ambient rgb <1,.5,0> }}} box{<1,1,1><-1,-1,-1> pigment{rgbt<0,1,1>} translate -2*z rotate -45*x texture{T_Chrome_3C} finish {ambient rgb <0,.5,1>}} plane{y,-1.95 texture{pigment{checker Black, rgbf<0,.5,1,.8>} finish{reflection .8}}} plane{y,-2 texture{Water scale 3 pigment{rgbf<0,0.5,1,.9>}}}How can all that ugly code make such a pretty picture? |