"Rick" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote in message news:39589c54@news.povray.org...
>
> > Just because POV lacks many features doesn't stop people using it to
make
> > movies.  A group called the Internet Movie Project is doing just that.
> You
> > just have to work a bit harder at it, that's all.
>
> you shouldn't have to, that's the point.
>
> it would be nice if povray included all the features of the top end
> commercial render engines, and it stopped being seen as a hobbyists toy
and
> more of a powerful professional tool.
>

There are two parts to this: what is wrong with povray as a render engine
and what is wrong with povray as a modeller/scene animator?

As a render engine, I dare say there are some deficiencies (bugs, missing
functions, etc), but I would hazard a guess that, overall, it has more
features than any other render engine, commercial or otherwise.

As a modeller and scene animator, well it isn't meant to be one. Nothing to
stop someone writing a fully-featured modeller/animator that intergrates
with POV - it has support for animation, etc. and no rewrites would be
necessery of the POV code - but that is not the intent of the program as
such.

Just out of curiousity, if someone was to write a modeller that intergrated
with POV, could they release it commercially, or would the fact that it
output POV scene code prohibit this?

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