On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:43:45 -0400, commodorejohn wrote:

> In the past I've had some fun playing around with POV-Ray via Moray for
> Windows on a handful of different PCs. Recently, though, I acquired a
> Power Mac G5 that I've installed Debian on, and as its overall
> horsepower is several times that of even my previous P4 tower, I thought
> it would be nice to start using it for rendering as well as just general
> Linux acclimation.
> 
> I got POV-Ray itself built and installed with no trouble; however, I'm
> having a heck of a time finding a modeller to use with it. I've looked
> at a number of ones from the "Links" section, but most of them appear to
> be dead or abandoned years ago. Truevision looks promising, but the
> latest tarball is throwing errors about conflicting declarations at me,
> and the CVS server doesn't seem to be working...
> 
> All I really want here is a simple modeller along the lines of Moray
> that I can use for hobby rendering, and that will build without a big
> fuss. Can anyone give me some suggestions?

There is (or was) a plugin for Blender to export to .pov, but Blender is 
a fairly complex piece of software.

Have a look at Wings3D.  It's a subdivision modeler, but there is a povray 
export plugin for it that seems to work pretty well last I remember.

Jim

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