The Shape Machine

Textures

Important: To see the proper effects of textures you should change the lighting to 'white,' <10 10 10>. Otherwise the light color will change the default color for the texture.

Textures are predefined colors and finishes that may be applied to a shape.

If you use a Texture you can also use any Basic Feature except 'object color', and you cannot user any Advanced Feature.

All sample Texture images are made with two white lights, one at the top left and one at the bottom left of the object.

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Texture and lights

Again, important: The 'default' lights include a red light at the top left, a blue light at the top right, and a green light at the bottom center. If you use a texture you will need to adjust the lights to achieve the colors seen in the sample images. To set a light to 'white' set the <R G B> values of a light to the same value, such as <10 10 10>.

All texture samples are rendered at high resolution, and converted to GIF format with the '216 color web safe' palette.

TSM offers the following predefined textures. These are 'POVRay standard' textures, they come with the original distribution. To maintain compatibility I have not changed any texture names, including spelling typos.

I have not included any 'glass' textures. Glass is very difficult to 'perceive'. We 'see' glass textures mostly because of the effect the surface has on reflecting and refracting other objects in the rendered scene. TSM includes no other objects in the scene, there is no other light/objects to reflect/refract. and things rendered with glass textures are very bland, lifeless, and 'non-glasslike' in appearance.

• Rock Texture Samples
  • Jade
  • Red Marble
  • White Marble
  • Blood Marble
  • Blue Agate
  • Sapphire Agate
  • Brown Agate
  • Pink Granite
  • Pink Alabaster

• Wood Texture Samples
  • Cherry Wood
  • Pine Wood
  • Yellow Pine
  • Rosewood
  • Sandalwood
  • DMF Dark Oak
  • DMF Light Oak
  • Dark Wood
  • Tan Wood
  • White Wood
  • Tom Wood
  • DMF Wood 1
  • DMF Wood 2
  • DMF Wood 3
  • DMF Wood 4
  • DMF Wood 5
  • DMF Wood 6
  • EMB Wood 1

• Sky Texture Samples
  • Blue Sky
  • Blue Sky 2
  • Blue Sky 3
  • Bright Blue Sky
  • Blood Sky
  • Apocalypse
  • Clouds
  • FBM Clouds
  • Shadow Clouds

• Other Texture Samples
  • Candy Cane
  • Peel
  • Water
  • Cork
  • Lightening 1
  • Lightening 2