CompuServe Messages

>> I think that POv is a lot easier to use under memory restrictions like this, but you'll find the modelers available for it to be pretty restricted after using Imagine. << Sumpin's comin out that should support almost everything that POV 2.2 can do (including textures) . Can't say more though. >> POV-Ray has much better procedural textures than Imagine 2.0, but Imagine 3.x pretty much closes the gap and more, since so many of the textures are easily animated. << Pov has much more control over the intricate details of the textures, and can create some superb ( and IMO unbeatable) marble textures. Imagine has over a hundred different textures, but if you look closely at some of them they almost seem to be the same textures saved with different default settings. Don't think I'm knocking Imagine (I love it), but It needs more control over the textures and (This one is really starting to bother me) the ability to know where the textures/attribs/effects/objects are on the disk. I absolutely hate having to dig through all my subdirectories to find the texture dir. Also When you load a project then go into the detail editor and select load it should open to the object dir. for the project. Sorry I just had to get that off my chest. Anyways what I was going to say is you can't really say Imagine or pov has better textures, because it depends on what you need at the time. I've had times when using Imagine I wish I had some of the POV textures and times using POV I wish I had some of Imagines textures. Nuff said. I'm babbling -Sam J. Bowling