Scene Description Files
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Scene Description Files

At the present time, scene description files are very simple. The parser can't handle multiple file scene descriptions, although they may be added in the future. Most of the objects and their scene description are closely related to the Tachyon API (See the API docs for additional info.)

Subsections

- Basic Scene Requirements
- Camera and viewing parameters
  - Camera projection modes
  - Common camera parameters
  - Viewing frustum
- Including Files
- Scene File Comments
- Lights
- Atmospheric effects
  - Fog
- Objects
  - Spheres
  - Triangles
  - Smoothed Triangles
  - Infinite Planes
  - Rings
  - Infinite Cylinders
  - Finite Cylinders
  - Axis Aligned Boxes
  - Fractal Landscapes
  - Arbitrary Quadric Surfaces
  - Volume Rendered Scalar Voxels
- Texture and Color
  - Simple Texture Characteristics
  - Texture Declaration and Aliasing
  - Image Maps and Procedural Textures