Tim Soderstrom wrote:
> 
> I don't use Spline Editor - I use sPatch (both work well, but Spatch doesn't
> require control points - its downfall, however, is that it cannot do pure
> lathes - it converts them). I have considered using sPatch to make the curve,
> but the problem is that I may want to add some detail to the track. If I used
> sPatch, I would have to remodell the curuve. In any case, I will look for
> that macro on twysted.net (as soon as it works again) and see if that will
> help me. Really, the problem is not making the curve, it's getting the angle
> of the cut right and converting this value to a rotation of a box. I may
> 'cheat' on this and use a modeller to make the curve track and then modify it
> using a text-editor. I had origonally wanted to stay away from things that
> would take away from the detail because I may be rendering this in a very
> large resolution (to put on large paper for an art project). That's why I was
> using CSG :)
> 
> Thanks for the help, though, as I said, I'll look for those Macros when
> Twysted.net gets back on (and tutorials on that note, heh :)
> 
> Tim Soderstrom

  The macros I was referring to are located here on this server in the
povray.binaries.utilities group. I believe Giles Tran was one of the
people that posted a version and there was another one posted within a
day of two of his.


-- 
Ken Tyler

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