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"Hal" <pio### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
news:web.41e3ec73d4e05e0d668c2e340@news.povray.org...
> in 1st place , hello to everybody , and sorry my english
>
> i'm a newbie in povray, and i already did a few things on it ( i'll post
> them at the bottom) , but i would like to know the list of the modellers
> that can export the scenes to pov format , in order to be rendered in this
> awesome raytracer ...
> i know that ac3d do it , and that's what i've been using, but i would
like
> to know if there are others modellers doing it , or if there are plugins
to
> make it
>
What platform are you running pov on? (Windows? Linux? Mac?) I'm going to
just guess Linux, since i'm not sure if ac3d is available on the others.
Wings3D is a mesh modeller available on multiple platforms.
http://www.wings3d.com . It's not really a scene modeller, more of an
object modeller. It can output to povray with a plugin, but as Jim Charter
pointed out to me, it's often more usefull to export to a .obj file, then
use Poseray to convert to the pov mesh format.
Poseray is at http://user.txcyber.com/~sgalls/downloads.htm and says this:
-Windows 2000 or XP strongly recomended. Windows 95, 98 and ME not tested.
-Linux windows emulator: Win4Lin and Crossover Office (reported by end
users).
-Mac windows emulator: MacOS 10.2 VirtualPC 6.1.1 with Win2000 or Blue Label
(reported by end users).
-Other emulators may also work.
Blender is also usable with a little work. (works on multiple platforms as
well), http://www.blender.org/ . You would need the povanim plugin if i
remember correctly:
http://jmsoler.free.fr/util/blenderfile/povanim_index.htm
I think there is something called KPovModeller for use under KDE. I've not
tried it.
On Windows, Moray is probably hands down the most widely used modeller.
http://www.stmuc.com/moray/ . I havn't used it in a while, but it was very
easy to use.
Then there are things like Spatch and Hamapatch. Also, a new modeller is
Silo, though it isn't free in any sense of the word. Inexpensive, for what
it can do (US$120 or so?).
Hope this helps!
-ross
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