"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlnet> wrote in message 
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> I second that opinion from Tim Nikias about Silo in combination with
> POV-Ray. Silo is a great program.

I think someone said it doesn't do animations though - that would be a 
killer for me.

> There is AFAIK an old include file by Chris Colefax that *explodes* 
> POV-Ray
> objects. Would that help?

Not really - the idea here is that the tank is tearing through a hanger 
door, so I need metalic deformations.  I had the thought of messing with 
Mechsim, but at some point I just think it would be easier to buy something 
instead of building it :)

I got about halfway there by using Poser's cloth room simulation - it's 
faster than mechsim and easier to visualize what's happening.  I made the 
doors flat pieces of 'cloth'.  It doesn't quite look right though.

I did get some source code for a couple of fracturable object simulations 
which aren't bad, but it would take some effort to convert to POVRay.

        == John ==

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