Hi,
    I had a look at AERO, and you're right, it looks great, but sadly I'm
only running WIN 95, so it's not suitable for me ( next time I absolutely
HAVE TO do a complete re-install, I might consider installing it - I have
S.u.S.e. Linux 5.2 on CD).
    I thought that some suitable software/plug-in would be available - Chris
Colefax's "Spray.inc" has some interesting features. It wouldn't have to
mimic real life exactly, just have defineable characteristics such as
elasticity, mass etc, and most importantly collision detection. I believe
that Real 3D on the Amiga had such features, and as far as I'm aware, it too
is a solid modeller. As I stated previously, my programming capabilities are
nil ( I get lost beyond "rotate z*(clock*360)"). I prefer to render looping
animations where, other than setting up the initial parameters, I'm not sure
what the outcome will be ie. multiple translations and rotations, at which
POV excels.

    Thanx again for all your replies,

Andy C.


Thomas Willhalm wrote in message ...
>"Lance Birch" <zon### [at] satcomnetau> writes:
>
>> I've done this with MAX's dynamics system and it was really fun.  The
only
>> problem was the time it took to compute (if you wanted it to be
accurate).
>> I don't think you could do this effectively with POV-Ray's scene
language,
>> but as Marc suggested, AERO is a good way to go.  I don't think it's DOS
or
>> Windows though (I think it was Linux).  It's worth a look if you have the
>> operating system, from what I've seen of the sample files ages ago it
looked
>> fairly good.
>
>It also works great with Sun Solaris (and I guess with other Unices, too).
>However, porting it to another system might be painful, because it uses
>a lot of packages that aren't very common.
>
>Thomas
>
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