Ronald L. Parker wrote in message <3657a275.9190601@news.povray.org>...
>On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:23:21 -0000, "Mick Hazelgrove"
><mic### [at] virginnet> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know how to color different parts of a poser model in Pov ?
>>I vaguely remember seeing an article somewhere on the web but foolishly
>>didn't make a note of the url
>
>You might be thinking of http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
>Then again, you might not.
>

Poser 3 ribs produce group names with whitespace in them, i.e.
"Left Shoulder". With pov3.1.a it's necessary to edit the names
and substitute '_' (or other) for the blanks. I wonder if makeinc
could be modified to parse the whitepace? (I'm a perl dabbler
otherwise I'd attempt it myself).

What would be really really really nice is if there was a mesh
utility that would graphically step through each element and
allow simple assignment of the current highlighted element
to a group_name. I envision a window that displays a wireframe
and each triangle is lit up as the mesh is parsed and off to
the side is some sort of selector that moves/assigns that
triangle to a named declare statement.

I would pay decent money for a utility like that. Of course,
there may already exist such a tool -- anyone know?

Can't recall the exact name of an old dos tool that did
something like this ... not Anger's raw2pov ... maybe a
version of Clay? Something that worked with .raw files
and allowed point and click dragging of vertices ... seems like
the code would be a good basis for beginning the mesh
sorter/parser tool I'd like to have.

Hope this inspires someone ...

Pan

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