Thanks.

So what would be the best 3ds to povray converter? Somthing that would keep
the materials in place.

Mike Williams



"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
> Mike Williams wrote:
> >
> > Is there a 3ds max plugin to render in povray? Or a converter that will
> > convert max files to povray. I am looking for a clean solution.
Something
> > that will work will all parts of MAX.
>
> As far as I know, no. MAX is a proprietary 3D graphics format which they
> gaurd rather closely. PolyTrans claims to support MAX and can export to
> POV-Ray v2.2 and 3.0 but is expensive and will probably require a fair
> amount of tweaking to get comparable results.
>
> http://www.okino.com/conv/conv.htm
>
> > MAX does not have a good rendering engine built-in.
>
> If you have MAX why not try exporting to .3ds and convert from there?
>
> --
> Ken Tyler

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