3.7.17 textures.inc

This file contains many predefined textures, including wood, glass, and metal textures, and a few texture/pattern generation macros.

3.7.17.1 Stones

Stone Pigments:

Jade_Map, Jade: Drew Wells' superb Jade. Color map works nicely with other textures, too.
Red_Marble_Map, Red_Marble: Classic white marble with red veins. Over-worked, like checkers.
White_Marble_Map, White_Marble: White marble with black veins.
Blood_Marble_Map, Blood_Marble: Light blue and black marble with a thin red vein.
Blue_Agate_Map, Blue_Agate: A grey blue agate -- kind of purplish.
Sapphire_Agate_Map, Sapphire_Agate: Deep blue agate -- almost glows.
Brown_Agate_Map, Brown_Agate: Brown and white agate -- very pretty.
Pink_Granite_Map, Pink_Granite: Umm, well, pink granite.

Stone textures:

PinkAlabaster: Gray-pink alabaster or marble. Layers are scaled for a unit object and relative to each other.; Note: This texture has very tiny dark blue specks that are often mistaken for rendering errors. They are not errors. Just a strange texture design.; Underlying surface is very subtly mottled with bozo.; Second layer texture has some transmit values, yet a fair amount of color.; Veining is kept quite thin in color map and by the largish scale.

3.7.17.2 Skies

Sky pigments:

Blue_Sky_Map, Blue_Sky: Basic blue sky with clouds.
Bright_Blue_Sky: Bright blue sky with very white clouds.
Blue_Sky2: Another sky.
Blue_Sky3: Small puffs of white clouds.
Blood_Sky: Red sky with yellow clouds -- very surreal.
Apocalypse: Black sky with red and purple clouds.; Try adding turbulence values from 0.1 - 5.0 -- CdW
Clouds: White clouds with transparent sky.
FBM_Clouds
Shadow_Clouds: A multilayered cloud texture (a real texture, not a pigment).

3.7.17.3 Woods

Wood pigments:

Several wooden pigments by Tom Price:

Cherry_Wood: A light reddish wood.
Pine_Wood: A light tan wood whiteish rings.
Dark_Wood: Dark wood with a,ish hue to it.
Tan_Wood: Light tan wood with brown rings.
White_Wood: A very pale wood with tan rings -- kind of balsa-ish.
Tom_Wood: Brown wood - looks stained.

DMFWood1, DMFWood2, DMFWood3, DMFWood4, DMFWood5: The scaling in these definitions is relative to a unit-sized object (radius 1).
Note: woods are functionally equivalent to a log lying along the z axis. For best results, think like a woodcutter trying to extract the nicest board out of that log. A little tilt along the x axis will give elliptical rings of grain like you would expect to find on most boards. Experiment.

Wood textures:

DMFWood6: This is a three-layer wood texture. Renders rather slowly because of the transparent layers and the two layers of turbulence, but it looks great. Try other colors of "varnish" for simple variations.
DMFLightOak: Is this really oak? I dunno. Quite light, maybe more like spruce.
DMFDarkOak: Looks like old desk oak if used correctly.
EMBWood1: Wood by Eric Barish

Doug Otwell woods:

Yellow_Pine: Yellow pine, close grained.
Rosewood
Sandalwood: makes a great burled maple, too

3.7.17.4 Glass

Glass_Finish is a generic glass finish, Glass_Interior is a generic glass interior, it just adds an ior of 1.5.

Glass materials:

M_Glass: Just glass.
M_Glass2: Probably more of a "Plexiglas" than glass.
M_Glass3: An excellent lead crystal glass!
M_Green_Glass

Glass textures contributed by Norm Bowler, of Richland WA. NBglass_finish is used by these materials.

M_NBglass
M_NBoldglass
M_NBwinebottle
M_NBbeerbottle

A few color variations on Norm's glass.

M_Ruby_Glass
M_Dark_Green_Glass
M_Yellow_Glass
M_Orange_Glass
M_Vicks_Bottle_Glass

3.7.17.5 Metals

Metal finishes:

Metal: Generic metal finish.
SilverFinish: Basic silver finish
Metallic_Finish

Metal textures:

Chrome_Metal, Brass_Metal, Bronze_Metal, Gold_Metal, Silver_Metal, Copper_Metal: A series of metallic textures using the Metal finish (except for Chrome_Metal, which has a custom finish). There are identical textures ending in _Texture instead of _Metal, but use of those names is discouraged.
Polished_Chrome: A highly reflective Chrome texture.
Polished_Brass: A highly reflective brass texture.
New_Brass: Beautiful military brass texture!
Spun_Brass: Spun Brass texture for cymbals & such
Brushed_Aluminum: Brushed aluminum (brushed along X axis)
Silver1
Silver2
Silver3
Brass_Valley: Sort of a "Black Hills Gold", black, white, and orange specks or splotches.
Rust
Rusty_Iron
Soft_Silver
New_Penny
Tinny_Brass
Gold_Nugget
Aluminum
Bright_Bronze

3.7.17.6 Special textures

Candy_Cane: Red & white stripes - Looks best on a y axis Cylinder.; It "spirals" because it's gradient on two axis.
Peel: Orange and Clear stripes spiral around the texture to make an object look like it was "Peeled". Now, you too can be M.C. Escher!
Y_Gradient
X_Gradient
M_Water: Wavy water material. Requires a sub-plane, and may require scaling to fit your scene.; WARNING: Water texture has been changed to M_Water material, see explanation in the "glass" section of this file.
Cork
Lightning_CMap1, Lightning1, and Lightning_CMap2, Lightning2: These are just lightning textures, they look like arcing electricity...earlier versions misspelled them as "Lightening".
Starfield: A starfield texture by Jeff Burton

3.7.17.7 Texture and pattern macros

Irregular_Bricks_Ptrn (Mortar Thickness, X-scaling, Variation, Roundness). This function pattern creates a pattern of bricks of varying lengths on the x-y plane. This can be useful in building walls that do not look like they were built by a computer. Note that mortar thickness between bricks can vary somewhat, too.
Parameters:

Mortar Thickness = Thickness of the mortar (0-1).
X-scaling = The scaling of the bricks (but not the mortar) in the x direction.
Variation = The amount by which brick lengths will vary (0=none, 1=100%).
Roundness = The roundness of the bricks (0.01=almost rectangular, 1=very round).

Tiles_Ptrn(). This macro creates a repeating box pattern on the x-y plane. It can be useful for creating grids. The cells shade continuously from the center to the edges.
Parameters: None.

Hex_Tiles_Ptrn(). This macro creates a pattern that is a sort of cross between the hexagon pattern and a repeating box pattern. The hexagonal cells shade continuously from the center to the edges.
Parameters: None.

Star_Ptrn (Radius, Points, Skip). This macro creates a pattern that resembles a star. The pattern is in the x-y plane, centered around the origin.
Parameters:

Radius = The radius of a circle drawn through the points of the star.
Points = The number of points on the star.
Skip = The number of points to skip when drawing lines between points to form the star. A normal 5-pointed star skips 2 points. A Star of David also skips 2 points. Skip must be less than Points/2 and greater than 0. Integers are preferred but not required. Skipping 1 point makes a regular polygon with Points sides.
Pigment = The pigment to be applied to the star.
Background = The pigment to be applied to the background.