Hmm...well it would seem that at this point in time you are correct, though 
I do remember an old macro meant to translate pov-ray objects into meshes 
which could be exported..

Additionally, being a programmer I find it hard/difficult to accept that it 
is *completely*  impossible to export a great deal of pov-ray functionality 
into one or many programs, and this is something that I think I will at 
least experiment with once Lightwave arrives at my house.

Essentially POV SDL is very close in structure to most C-like programming 
languages, and given this, perhaps one could translate pov-sdl into some 
form of XML which could be further manipulated using XSL-FO to produce 
scenes or objects which could be loaded into another renderer, and 
vise-versa.

Seriously, a CSG is a CSG and a sphere is a sphere...
Most of the complication I forsee would be in the translation of materials, 
lighting models and particle effects, which would be less complicated with 
procedural applications like Houdini and those compatible with the Renderman 
interface, like BMRT.

So logistically I think this is at least feasible, and at most a serious 
PITA.

If we can write programs which translate chinese into english, java to 
c#/vb, and dwg to dgn, how hard could SDL conversion be?

I suppose I will find out! ;-D

ian
Nothing that seems logically possible will be any fun to attempt. ;-)

"Jan Dvorak" <jan### [at] centrumcz> wrote in message 
news:4769260a$1@news.povray.org...
> See the FAQ. there is no way to export.

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