So far so good, and it looks amazing!

Gilles Tran wrote:

> You got it. It's in povray.binaries.utilities.
> The lower/upper corner of the containing box is displayed on screen after the
> end of the parsing, and a commented line is added at the end of the generated
> file :
> // Tree in box{<-20.8239,-3.15052,-15.6178>,<16.2539,48.6219,22.4758>
> pigment{Green}}
> If it's buggy let me know (I just tested it on extree1.pov).
> Gilles Tran.
>
> Josh English wrote:
>
> > That would be great... if it wouldn't be too much trouble I know I'd
> > appreciate it. This is a great macro and the trees look great, I just can't
> > place them properly.
> >
> > Thanks, Josh
> >
> > Gilles Tran wrote:
> >
> > > If you want, I can release a version of the tree macro that gives you the
> > > upper and lower corners of the containing box. It's very easy actually,
> > > since all the objects positions are known in <x,y,z> coordinates in the
> > > macro. In fact it's so handy that I wish I had thought of that earlier...
> > > Thanks.
> > > Gilles Tran
> > >
> > > 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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