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Opened by Christian Froeschlin - 2012-10-10
Last edited by William F Pokorny - 2017-01-23
FS#256 - CSG texturing modes
At times, the current method of specifying texture for
CSG components and compounds is restricting. The issue
pops up now and then, see e.g.
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.4fc892634f065c00e32b83540@news.povray.org%3E/
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.5073e9f7dae1fbb2d97ee2b90%40news.povray.org%3E/
There should be a new CSG option “texture_mode” or similar, which could take
one of the following values:
preserve (the current behavior)
cutaway (the current behavior when specifying cutaway_textures)
override (replace all individual textures with compound texture)
layer (layer the compound texture over the existing textures)
and possibly, more involved
modify/merge: if both element and compund textures are simple, i.e.
not layered or mapped, override all default values of the element
textures with the values from the compound texture. The idea would
be to, e.g., have the elements already pigmented but then apply
common normal or finish properties.
Now tracked on github as issue #216.