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In lugnet.cad, Lars C. Hassing writes:
> I've always admired Anton Raves' renderings, he is very good at setting
> the light and other POV parameters. And his parts looks great, he has done
> many difficult parts like propellers.
>
> In december 2000 I asked Anton Raves whether he had considered to make
> a conversion table, but it seems he is a Mac-freak :-)
> He knows LDraw, MLCad, L3P etc. but as there are no Mac versions,
> he hasn't gotten into them.
> Perhaps Erik Olson's efforts on BrickDraw3D can be an opening.
I would like to connect my program to POV-RAY. Since BrickDraw3D aims at
being best at interactive modeling, adapting it to work alongside POVRAY
would make a natural division of labor.
Two ways to do this. 1. Finish the POVRAY plugin for the Quesa architecture.
2. Exporting POVRAY input files--probably the most desirable to POVRAY
users. For that, I'd have to discover the translation tables desired. (Or do
the obvious thing: exporting only DAT part descriptions already in memory.)
I haven't worked with POVRAY since 1994, but it was my first foray into
virtual Lego. Made my own yellow castle parts. Tim told me there were a lot
of people trying it around then, and nobody talked much to each other.
-Erik
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In lugnet.cad, Erik Olson writes:
> Two ways to do this. 1. Finish the POV-Ray plugin for the Quesa architecture.
> 2. Exporting POV-Ray input files--probably the most desirable to POVRAY
> users. For that, I'd have to discover the translation tables desired. (Or do
> the obvious thing: exporting only DAT part descriptions already in memory.)
I just found out the POV-Ray license terms have changed since 1995. No
wonder the plug-in was never completed--they prohibit changing POV-Ray into
a plug-in....
Anyway, path #2 is good enough. There's probably some API where the user can
press a button and have POV-Ray fire up to render a new file.
I'm off to learn about this.
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Erik Olson wrote:
>
> I just found out the POV-Ray license terms have changed since 1995. No
> wonder the plug-in was never completed--they prohibit changing POV-Ray into
> a plug-in....
>
> Anyway, path #2 is good enough. There's probably some API where the user can
> press a button and have POV-Ray fire up to render a new file.
Check the command line options on the help file, I think the parameter
is +Ifile.pov but I'm not sure.
Leonardo
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Leonardo Zide writes:
> Erik Olson wrote:
> >
> > I just found out the POV-Ray license terms have changed since 1995. No
> > wonder the plug-in was never completed--they prohibit changing POV-Ray into
> > a plug-in....
> >
> > Anyway, path #2 is good enough. There's probably some API where the user can
> > press a button and have POV-Ray fire up to render a new file.
>
> Check the command line options on the help file, I think the parameter
> is +Ifile.pov but I'm not sure.
>
> Leonardo
There must be a way to do this, since Moray, http://www.stmuc.com/moray/ a
3d modeler uses Povray directly to render.
-Chuck
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