>The "dosmooth" parameter should be "false",
>because the conversion is more of a problem for meshes that contain smooth
>triangles, since Crossroads only supports regular ones. You can still
re-smooth
>the triangles in Crossroads if necessary.
>When I can't regenerate a POV mesh without the smoothing, I import the mesh
to
>Excel, move the values into separated columns, remove the normals and save
it
>(and then import it into Crossroads). It's less straightforward but it
works.


Noted, thanks.

btw do you mind me modifying your macro? I intend to use the trace function
to find the height of a height field and possible the eval_pigment  along
with an
imagemap to determine density of grass.

Gail
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