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Old 29th April 2006, 03:21 PM   #1
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Default Is POVRay as complicated as it seems?

Alright, I haven't asked for much help recently, but I really need it now. I just installed POVRay the other night, and I can't make heads or tails of it. All I see is 140189 lines of code for triangle coordinates, textures, and colors. In the AC3D Manual, it says you can add POVRay textures in the Object Data Editor. All I've found is Object Property Editor, and that has no POVRay properties in it. Also, the POVRay images I have tried were of low quality compared with the images in the 3d window of AC3D. I'm doing something wrong, aren't I?
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Old 29th April 2006, 05:03 PM   #2
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You can put POVRay stuff in the "Object data text" field in the Object property editor.

The "Use object data for POV files" should be checked (File menu->Settings->Files) but I think it is by default.

As for all the triangles - yes that is the way an AC3D model is represented in POVRay.
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Old 3rd May 2006, 11:16 AM   #3
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Thanks, I was messing around with it and got a glass sphere. I guess that's a start. I suppose I just need to get used to a couple hundred thousand lines of code... :cry:
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povray kinda reminds me of C++ not really user friendly and it deals alot with hard coding... good luck though with povray
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Old 5th May 2006, 01:27 AM   #5
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i really dont like much POVRAY too much plms. i just want all once in AC3D that it.

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Old 5th May 2006, 02:56 PM   #6
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whats plms?
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Old 5th May 2006, 03:43 PM   #7
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Do you mean like:

'Parse Warning: No pigment specified'

or

'Parse Warning: Degenerate Triangle - Please Remove'

in every other line of the message window?

PS: I think I'm getting the hang of this now. And you're definitely right about the C++ thing, I'm a student of Visual Basic ops: .
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Old 5th May 2006, 03:44 PM   #8
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One million + lines of code is way too much...
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Old 6th May 2006, 08:58 PM   #9
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PoseRay will maybe help you then ...

http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/index.htm
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And here's another free scene renderer :

http://www.artofillusion.org/index
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