############################################################################## LUNEX BETA TEST - FULL BETA - STILL IN PROGRESS. AUTHOR : Jay Tanner - 2025 LICENSE : Public Domain LANGUAGE : POV-Ray v3.7.0 Basically, all the program does is render user defined images of the moon and the FULL version is provided with all the optional maps for 3D lunar surface rendering. The LITE version contains only the basic lunar surface map and the DEM map, so it can be tried before downloading the FULL version. The high-quality maps alone make up the bulk of the package. All of the program- ming code combined, even with comments, only amounts to about 26 KB. Optional maps include such things as color-coded altimetry and gravity maps and grids among others. These are all included in the FULL package. Users can also easily add their own 0-centered custom texture maps to it. Simple PNG file format is recommended for textures because JPEG format strips out some image data and sometimes distorts it. Even if this distortion is not visible to the eye, it can make a big difference to the rendering engine and possibly reduce the quality of the final rendered images. Since we are dealing with the moon, we want the renderings to be as scientif- ically accurate as possible. To achieve this, a HightField is used to obtain the highest accuracy and realism. A bump map (Mode 1) is used for quick pre- views and a HightField (Mode 2) is used to render the final image in higher, more natural detail, but it takes more time to render.