Alain wrote:
> badjanah nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/01/03 08:12:
>> I need to insert into povray scene some exported 3ds objects. Exported
>> objects are complex, have many polygons and vertex. How automatically
>> calculate object bounding box for scaling to needed size?
>>
>>
>>
> Get PoseRay (Free).
> Import the 3DS object into PoseRay.
> Here, you can rotate, translate and rotate the object if you wish.
> Export the object to POV-Ray. This will create a file (.inc) that 
> POV-Ray can use. That file will contain a mesh version of your object. 
> You may also have some other files containing the materials to be used 
> with the obect.
> 
> #include the file(s) from PoseRay into your scene.
> 
> Once the object is available to POV-Ray, you can use min_extent() and 
> max_extent() to retreive the actual bounding box of that object and use 
> that to scale it.
> As the imported object is a mesh, you can use 1000's of it without problem.
> 

Also, the #include file created by PoseRay will include (as comments) 
the minimum and maximum x-, y-, and z-extents of the object, which *may* 
save you a step or two, at least in deciding precisely how to deal with 
the object.

--Sherry Shaw


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