POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.competition : Why I won't enter PoVComp again. : Re: Why I won't enter PoVComp again. Server Time
13 Apr 2025 14:31:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why I won't enter PoVComp again.  
From: St 
Date: 25 Feb 2005 15:17:01
Message: <421f87bd@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
news:421e6be2@news.povray.org...
> St. <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>>     Ross, no third party models were used in my image. They were all 
>> mine.
>> Around 150+ made in Wings.
>
>  So, is it your opinion that since you made 150+ objects in Wings you
> should have won the competition?

    Don't be silly.


>
>>    Still can't find it? I missed the deadline by minutes in the end, ( I
>> tried, literally), but to no avail, ask the comp compilers.
>
>  And still you dare to argument that you would have not won because
> you were using too many imported models?
>  Pretty big assumptions you make...

     This has nothing to do with my image. It is to do with principle.


>
>>     Well, obviously, that wasn't my image, but that's what would have 
>> been
>> said about my image after a lot of hard work. So, back to my point. Why
>> entice PoVRay users, (generally), to enter this contest if it was 
>> worthless
>> to the external modeler?
>
>>   Why did so many good CG artists enter this comp knowing that external
>> models would fare badly?
>
>  There's a big difference between using external models and composing
> your entire scene solely of external models.
>  The objective of the competition was not to show how POV-Ray can be
> used to project meshes onto the screen.

   Blah blah blah... (and so it goes on). Yawn.

   ~Steve~


>
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