As I was choosing a gradient to use in a picture in GIMP recently I inadvertently right clicked on one and saw that the drop-down menu included the option to save (the gradient) "..as POV-Ray", not having an idea what this meant I saved it anyway, then DuckDuckGo'd "POV-Ray". 'Interesting', I thought, a graphics application of some kind
... I downloaded and installed POV-Ray v3.7 for Windows. I soon realised the program is script-based therefore I would have to learn the ins-and-outs of the syntax used (nightmare, I'm still trying to get my head around Python lol) - anyway I've spotted some tutorials on YT (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDWcEQrqsc for instance) so I hope to get something done with that soon... (finger's crossed). Can anybody tell me though, how can I use the file I saved (the gradient) in the POV-Ray program, not sure if anyone out there is familiar with it, but for starters I can't find anything so far in the 'POV_Ray Help' about gradients, let alone which format they have to be saved in or what one has to do with the file (maybe point to it within a POV-Ray script somehow (??)).
Anyway, would appreciate any help if anyone has a clue about it, if not I'll just soldier on hope to make something like this person's first animation(!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exL5B7LapUoCheers.