thanks ken and anoop,

i'm playing with the monitor ken pointed me towards in povworld
right now.  i would imagine that some experts think its poor
practice for a newbie like myself to use others' models instead
of learning the program from the ground up.

however, i've found that looking at others' models is a good
way to learn new things.  for example, the monitor that ken
pointed me to has a bitmap for OS/2 for the screen.   LOL.
so i hacked on it and learned how to apply image maps.

the big problem i've had with 3ds format is that texturing and
colors are an important part of a model, and its something
that as a newbie, i'm not very good at, and all the 3ds files
convert with 3DWin sans texture and color, other than a uniform
gray.  i understand that the textures will convert properly if i
used megapov.

thanks, miker





"anoop" <ano### [at] flashmailcom> wrote in message
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>
> Ken wrote in message <3BBF6D34.A6AB5DAC@pacbell.net>...
> >
> >
> >MR wrote:
> >>
> >> hello,
> >>
> >> can anyone tell me where i can get a freebie computer monitor
> >> model, preferrably in pov format...
> >
> >http://www.povworld.de/cgi-bin/objects/Electronics/Computer/
> >
> >--
> >Ken Tyler
>
>
> Also in www.3dcafe.com in one the free ware models section - don't
> remember exactly which. Lots more free models there - in 3ds and dxf
> format.
>
> Regards,
> Anoop
>
>

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