I have moray on my system. Ive seen the material editor and I must say im
quite impressed by it. But again, its not free, and after 10 or 15 test
renders, a nag box shows up. I respect the fact that the author of moray did
spend much time and sweat on it, but I just don't like nag boxes. So I'm
still continuing the design of the app. It will behave much like moray's
material editor does (It was not intentional, I had already begun laying out
the dialogs and parameter boxes before I had seen moray's. I guess the
author and I have the same tastes in GUI design/layouts) but there will be
features he hasnt done yet, like refraction, average function, visual slope
map editor, and all the usual features. So far, all the controls are layed
out, I just need to tie all the controls together and start making it render
something. As to real time previews, I had considered building a custom
renderer based on pov source, with much of the bells and whistles removed so
I could get faster previews, but I'm not sure that will be a version 1.0
feature =) Lets see how it all turns out. Thanks for the input guys, seeing
these responses makes it worthwhile =)




"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom> wrote in message
news:MPG.14d166f28325adf4989874@news.povray.org...
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:53:13 -0500, cadman wrote...
> > Is Moray freeware?  Will yours be?
> > If you're looking for suggestions....
> > One thing I've always wanted in a texture editor is real-time updates
and
> > how the texture looks on different (basic) shapes with light sources at
> > different angles.
>
> Moray isn't freeware, but by the sound of things, this will be.
>
> If you've not looked at Moray, http://www.stmuc.com/moray is the home
> page for it.
>
> Bye for now,
>      Jamie.

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