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SECTION 8 - Essence Settings and Other Attributes

         This technique uses Steven Blackmore's DE* texture family and
 TOOLKIT I textures, available only for Imagine PC version.


         Enter Detail editor:


     - Add a primitive sphere and set Index of refr. to 1.31.
     - Add the DEFLTR-A texture.
     - Add the (Steven Blackmore's Texture Toolkit) FILTER texture:
       set New Filter Red, Green, Blue parameters to 255 (or set the
       Transparency value of standard Imagine TRANSPAR texture to 1.0).
     - Add the DEFLTR-B texture (size: 15, 15, 15) as follows:


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        2       1
        0      10
        0       0
        0       0
        0       0
        0       0
        0       1
        1       0


     - Add the DEREFL-A texture.
     - Add the (Steven Blackmore's Texture Toolkit) REFLECT texture and
       set New Reflect Red, Green, Blue values to 60 or add a standard
       Imagine CHECKS2 texture:


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        0      -1
       -1      -1
       -1       0
       -1       0
       60       0
       60       0
       60       0
       -1       0


     - Add a reflection brushmap (e.g. a sky picture).
     - Add the DEREFL-B texture (size: 15, 15, 15):


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        2       1
        0      10
        0       0
        0       0
        0       0
        0       0
        0       1
        1       0


     - Add the DECOLR-A texture.
     - For more variety in the fire, add more instances of the WRINKLE
       texture:


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        5     200
       10     100
        2       0
        1     120
        0.5    30
        4       0
        0.1     0
        0.2     0


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
       20     150
       20     100
        2      50
        1      20
        0.5    50
        4      20
        0.1     0
        0.4     0


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        8     200
        5      50
        5       0
        1     150
        0.5    50
        4      20
        0.1     0
        0.4     0


         And a fourth WRINKLE texture:


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
       12     240
        2     150
        2       0
        1     150
        0.5    80
        4       0
        0.1     0
        0.2     0


     - Add the DECOLR-B texture (size: 15, 15, 15):


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        2       1
        0      10
        0       0
        0       0
        0       0
        0       0
        0       1
        1       0


         You can also apply MNTNTOP texture as follows and drop the
 DEFLTR-A/FILTER/DEFLT-B texture attributes:


 Column One     Two
       ____    ____
        0      -1
        0      -1
        0      -1
        0     255
      255     255
        0     255
        0       1
        0       1


         Change the texture size to 13, 13, 13 and rotate the axis so
 Z points up and render.


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