HOW TO USE:

This is ThroughPut's MCM.POV file.  To use it you need POVRay 
which you can get at http://www.povray.org.  You can use it 
instead of 3D Studio to render your textures.   

To use it there are a few things that you need to do. First
you just open this file in POVRay and replace the 

"mcm_displacement_map.tga" 

with the name of your displacement
map tga file.  You then need to replace the 

"mcm_texture_map.tga" 

with the name of your unrendered texture tga file.

Below is the place in MCM.POV that contains the two 
things that need to be replaced.  
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object {
  height_field {
    /*
     *  CHANGE the next line to point to your displacement map.
     */
    tga "mcm_displacement_map.tga"
    scale <SCALE_FACTOR, 25.0, SCALE_FACTOR>
    smooth
  }

  texture {
    pigment {
      image_map {
        /*
         *  CHANGE the next line to point to your texture map.
         */
        tga "mcm_texture_map.tga"
      }
    
      scale SCALE_FACTOR
      rotate <90, 0, 0>
    }

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If you have a tall track you should also adjust the scale by 
changing the 25.0 on the scale line below the displacement 
map line.  It is MCM scale so you can divide your MCM 2 
strength by 3.0.  The 25.0 should be good enough until you have
an MCM 2 track with a strength greater then 75.0. The bigger the
number the stronger and more distinct the shadows.


SOME TIPS FOR USING POVRAY WITH MCM/MCM2


Be sure to edit the QuickRes.INI to add the resolution that you 
want your rendered texture to be. I added a 960x960 AA section 
like this. 

[960x960, AA]
Width=960
Height=960
Antialias=On


You can edit it under the Edit Render/Settings option under the 
Render menu. There is also a command line section on the edit 
dialog. I have two options there. The first is +AM2, which 
selects a different type of rendering. The default causes 
POVRay to abort when using the AntiAlias options under Windows
and you want to use AntiAlias. 

The other command line option that I use, is +FT. This changes
the default output from BMP to TGA. 

Bruce (AMA_DirtTwister)
bruceatk@mediaone.net
http://www.twisteddirt.com/dirttwister
