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John, Will check your file out. That sounds like an excellent trade! Read action !reply Enter reply. (/EXIT when done) Thanks! We thinki it's a great deal, too. We wanted a way to show people what our translator can do, and it's alwso a great way for people to see…
Danny, So, you hide out over here, too, huh? I finally got a company CIS account, so feel freer to wander from GRAPHDEV. Saw a file description for a Blob IPAS routine… that's your? Have you seen Alphonso's Blob Sculptor yet? Besides writing POV-Ray, Polyray, Rayshade, & RAW output, it…
Stephen, Do I hear "multi-media"? So, Microsoft wants a raytracer of their own, huh? Interesting. Guess that since they were kind of late getting on the bandwagon that they'd better hire the best, huh? Good luck with the new job, and say "Hi" to Bill. Microsoft has an ad showing…
Stephen, I seem to have missed some messages on TGA, but from some replies, it sounds as though you're making a few changes in your (and Vivid's) life? If you've deliberately kept quiet here, don't let me pry, but I'm curious. There is 1 Reply. Read action !
Per, I don't think that anyone will be disappointed with MORAY. There's still some things that it doesn't do (yet?) like displaying CSG in its CSG form), but Lutz has done a terrific job. I believe that the PV3D "big 3" are outdated and should be removed. There is a…
"dig af Dan F." That's what I say. Read action !
Actually, no excuses needed for yesterday's trip. It was great! Lost count of the total number, caught some pretty nice ones, too. Went back today and got totally skunked! End of fishing report. Back to graphics.. Read action !
#POV Includes
Message #21326
Colin, As Robert mentioned, you'll need (and want) the POVSCN.ZIP file for the standard include files, but also as a learning source. You'll learn more by perusing the sample files than you will by memorizing the docs. There is 1 Reply. Read action !
Per, I've been testing Lutz' (brand-new) MORAY modeller and I've punched a few buttons in PV3D. Don't have Windows so I haven't looked at POVCAD, but Alfonso is here if you've got questions. I too have some sort of video problem with PV3D. I've seen the same problem with a…
Jim, I've run out of harddrive a lot of times (doing animations from batchfiles. Never had anything like that happen. You using any sort of stacker-like compression or anything else unusual? There is 1 Reply. Read action !
Petro, You can't yet. POV 2.0 is still in testing. Sorry if we got you all worked up over nothing. You'll be able to get it in Lib 8 when it's ready, but there's currently no relese date target. There is 1 Reply. Read action !
>>…the commands are implemented in silicone. >> breast implants processing floating point math instructions Aha! A way for us males to regain control of society! This may be a very important discovery!! (I will refrain from making any sort of "software" jokes here, OK?) Read action !
"French is easy"… that's cute! I used to know a bit of Finnish (grew up in Michigan's Upper Penninsula where a lot of Finns settled) but the words wouldn't be appropriate here. Don't feel you've got to stop your PS's because of me… I was having fun trying to figure…
"Catch any trout yet?" One yesterday, one today. Wanna hear my excuses? There is 1 Reply. Read action !
> "Der er dog mindst" Hey… WHOS'S got the mind of a dog?!? 🙂 There are 2 Replies. Read action !
(DTA via .ZIPs) Exactly! Read action !
Colin, If you use the +x switch on the commandline, in your povray.def file, or the POVRAYOPT= setting, you can interrupt a trace mid-stream. The file can then be started again with the +c switch. It's all in the docs. The .tga file must be converted to a .gif (again,…
Mark, If you enjoyed Eric's "stream of conciousness physics", wait'll Jeff Bowermaster gets a little free time and starts his poetry going again . Stick around… you'll see what I mean. BTW: The stone tablets broke too easy. And you think harddisks are bad… Read action !
Mark, Boy, what a perfect segue! I've been meaning to drop a hint about "3-D Computer Animation" by John Vince (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-62756-6). I picked it up this weekend and have been learning a lot! Very well written. He explains the basics, but doesn't sugar-coat the important stuff. It's also…
Harley, Just about any of the viewers over in GRAPHSUP will do 1024×768 as long as your card supports it and you configure the drivers correctly. CSHOW can be a little tricky to configure properly… be sure to carefully read the docs if you update to the newer version. No…
Thanks for the support there, Eric. Actually, I could hear Xander saying "CHEAPER! HAVE YOU TRIED WRITING A ZBUFFER RENDERER?!?" -Dan Read action !
Sam, I ran into Lecointe on TGA yesterday. Boy, that guy is unstoppable! He's now adding a texture editor of some sort, as well as a few other features. I suggested (as delicately as I could) that he may be well advised to hold off on the new features and…
Sam, Run "POVMOD POVRAY.EXE" , select , and (generally) just the value that it suggests. If you're running DOS, it's not a bad idea to run a chkdsk /f first, along with cleaning up any other garbage you may have sitting around (in other words, maximize your available disk space…
Britt, > when it comes to a pixel with color it locks up. Have you tried with more than one scene file? This sounds more like a problem with the particular scene than with the copro emulator. There is 1 Reply. Read action !
Peter, Same as the difference between sports and football. Raytracing is rendering, but rendering is not neccessarily raytracing. Commonly, though, rendering is usually used in the context of "cheaper" 3D methods. (I know I'm gonna catch flak with that word "cheaper", but it's the best word that comes to mind…
Oh, no! From an Indigo to a COMPAQ luggable?!? Banish me to Siberia first!! TGA BBS is Adam Shiffman's "The Graphics Alternative" BBS (Oakland, CA). Check near the end of the POV docs for the phone number. TGA is hub of a terrific graphics network and is the "other" center…
Sam, >(it's kinda turning into a tutorial for beginers/intermediate >covering problems you might encounter) . That's where your audience is. There is 1 Reply. Read action !
Sam, POV 2.0 will have automatic bounding slabs, so will *almost always* render faster than 1.0… often much faster. You probably can't display > 640×480 because either your video card doesn't support it or you've got the switches set wrong. With my STB Ergo (TSENG4, Hicolor) I can't go over…
Vic, I don't think for a moment that raytracing is new. I remember seeing it on the old Atari ST shortly after it came out, and raytracing wasn't new at that time. Certainly isn't now… it just took this long for IBM to catch up with Amiga and Atari! (many…
Per, There really are not a lot of POV files in the libs… just a lot with POV in the name. You'll want POVIBM.ZIP, POVSCN.ZIP, and POVDOC.ZIP. In addition, the source is in POVSRC.ZIP (all this info is contained in POVINF.DOC and all files are in Lib 8). I don't…
So true. As you know, I haven't got any experience with POVCAD, but with Lutz's unnamed modeller, although it's quite rich in features, I find myself using it more as a reference than as a final scene production tool. I've been reworking my old drumset image and using the modeller…
Eduard, Did you know that the RTrace raytracer has built-in font support? The source is available on TGA. Of course, we wouldn't want to take directly from it, but if you wanted to see how they did it, you could look there. There is 1 Reply. Read action !
Ah, you young whippersnappers. Got to have a GUI! I remember when we were just thrilled to have a raytracer… period . To run POVCAD, you need VBRUN20.ZIP. Don't recall the library, but it's over in the GRAPHSUP forum. It's a small Visual Basic runtime library that will work with…
Thanks, John. I've seen the book, but don't recall if it had any source in it. John Swenson here has a partial 3D L-system programmed, but he's been hung up for a couple of years deciding on the parser language. (That's meant to be a spur in John's side). Read…
John, I can't help you find those programs, but if you do get ahold of them, could you either upload them here, or at least leave a message about where you found them? I think they'd be of great general interest. Thanks. Dan Read action !