TITLE: I'm puzzled ! NAME: Fabien MOSEN COUNTRY: BELGIUM (french speaking) EMAIL: 101741.541@compuserve.com WEBPAGE: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichelMosen/chkpage.htm (under TOPIC: ELEMENTS COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT JPGFILE: fmelem.jpg ZIPFILE: fmelem.zip RENDERER USED: POV 3.1 beta 5 MS-DOS TOOLS USED: Corel 3 RENDER TIME: Don't know ! Estimate to 12 hours... HARDWARE USED: AMD K6/233 - 64 Mb IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Not this time ! DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: The puzzle is my first big and "specialized" #macro. Previous ones were limited to rounded boxes, parametrized objects,... The zip file includes the macro only; the rest of the scene is quite ordinary made. The Puzzle macro works with 3 base elements : flat piece, push piece and pull piece, each being materialized by a height_field. The macro needs 4 parameters : number of columns, number of rows, number of missing pieces, image (png) to map on the puzzle. It creates a puzzle with 1*1 unit pieces. If you want to know how it works inside, take a look at the explanation picture (if I don't forget it ;) and the source in the zip file. Anyway, mail me if you have any question about the macro...