The Superpatch has two functions, min_extent() and max_extent() that return
the minimum and maximum coordinates of the object, in other words, its
bounding box. I really don't think you can do this with standard POV
functions.

Margus

Josh English wrote:
> 
> I am almost done with a scene I'm worknig on and I need to replace the
> cylinder and sphere "trees" with something a bit more realistic. Gilles
> Trans tree macro is amazing, and there's always LParser, but the biggest
> problem I have is that I can't find the outer extremities of these
> shapes to scale them and place them properly in my scene.
> 
> I remember that there was an include file of some sort that could find
> the outer extremities of any object and build a frame around it... it
> was also recommended to help place a text object in the file. Does
> anyone remember this or have I been hallucinating again?
> 
> Josh English
> english/@spiritone.com

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