Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!mephisto!udel!new
From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: How do I create new textures with Turbo Silver 3.0
Keywords: raytracing, textures
Message-ID: <21821@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 90 22:08:04 GMT
References: <1087@compel.UUCP>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <1087@compel.UUCP> her@compel.UUCP (Helge Egelund Rasmussen) writes:
>According to the manual:
>  ... Impulse Inc. will release into the public domain the information 
>  and/or software necessary for Silver users to create their own textures.

Well, the $30 upgrade leaves me with an "about" menu that says 3.01SV
May 5 and a directory called "Textures.Kit" that contains sample
textures and a description of how to write texture routines using the
files.  Since there is no "This is PD" in the files I looked at, I
can't post them. However, upgrading should get you a copy.

Are there other people using Turbo?  Are you getting good results?  I'm
getting crappy results, but I'm pretty sure it must be me.  I'm trying
to get a flame and a wax candle to look right and it just isn't
happening.  Shaded AsLamp objects shade themselves, which looks
terrible.  Wax just refuses to be translucent.  I get bizzarre stripes
of background color through my images, completely unrelated to
objects.

Also, I would be interested if anybody knows the IFF format for a turbo
CELL or OBJECT.  I think you can get the disk for $5, but since I'm
just playing around I never took the time to order it. I would be
interested in getting sample cells to learn from.

	     -- Darren