N00b needs Help on POVRAY

[DavkeG]

Hi, I'm a newbie on AC3D and POVRAY, I'm starting to get the hang of the AC3D basics but I just can't use povray. When I render an object via AC3D-POVray whitout textures ti works, but when i ad textures It doesn't work anymore.
Oh...and how can I store my rendered image as a BMP or JPG plz?
Thanks ahead for any help

[DavkeG]

and by the way: how do you change the background color of your rendered image? It's always black. Is there a way without having to create a sky dome?

[DavkeG]

I just figured out what the problem with the texture thing was thaks to another post on this forum :
Fro other noobs with the same problem : when your texture is a BMP file, and when you try to render it and some command line turns yellow=> put "sys" (whitout "") in front of "filename.bmp"
and run it again

[DavkeG]

I still don't know how to turn your renders to BMP or JPG files tough...
Or how to change the backgorund color...
Any help is more than welcome

[Thaellin]

The rendering output, by default, is found in ac3dpovfile.bmp, in the AC3D directory. BMP's can easily be converted to JPG by any number of programs. I'm not aware of a switch that causes POVRay to output JPG directly, but there may be one.

Changing the rendered background color is really quite easily done with a sky sphere. Edit the ac3dpovfile.pov file, go to the end and add:

sky_sphere {
pigment { color rgb<1 1 1> }
}

I believe that should give you a white background. Change the <1 1 1> to whatever RGB values you like, using 0 for 'off', 1 for 'on' and decimal values in between for partial values.

I do not know how to change background color without a sky sphere, but I expect POVRay's scene description language help-file would tell you how if there is another way.

Good luck,
-- Jeff

[DavkeG]

Hey thanks a lot man
This is the first ever 3D program i've ever worked with and this forum has helped me out a lot.
I've mostly been doing tutorials and most of them worked perfecly.
Still waiting for some inspiration to come through but I got a feeling it wont take very long

[DavkeG]

hey i just found out how to change the background color:
at the bottom add:

}
background { color rgb <0.2, 0.2, 0.3> }

not really sure what the numbers do though, 'cause i always seem to be getting a white bkgr whatever number i fill in...

[Thaellin]

Remove the commas - just use spaces when specifying a color
-- Jeff

[DavkeG]

Hey I just figured out what I was doing wrong.
This'll probaply sound very stupid to you advanced users out there but don't laugh too hard pleae: I didn't save

[marjorie_g]

Originally Posted by DavkeG

hey i just found out how to change the background color:
at the bottom add:

}
background { color rgb <0.2, 0.2, 0.3> }

not really sure what the numbers do though, 'cause i always seem to be getting a white bkgr whatever number i fill in...

Hi, an intermediate user here. Numbers in color statement mean the amount of rgb (red, green and blue) that compose the color. POV has a way to ease this.
Use colors.inc and textures.inc as basic include headers. You can open colors.inc in the editor and take a look. Many colors are "declared" there, so you can use for example

background {Black} or pigment { Red} which is more intuitive and easy to work with.

Hope this helps

Marjorie Graterol