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23 Apr 2024 22:43:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: QUESTION: STL to POV (INC)?  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 27 Jul 2017 04:09:29
Message: <59799fb9$1@news.povray.org>
On 27-7-2017 8:45, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> Hi, there is the NASA 3D Resources website, offering various vehicles
> and planetary landscapes as 3D models, formats OBJ and STL.
> 
> 1. Is there any OBJ to POV converter?
> 
> 2. I tried to convert the Martian and Lunar landscapes (STLs) to the
> POV-Ray format, using STL2POV:
> command line: "stl2pov -s InputFile.stl >OutputFile.inc".
> It reads STL files, and creates a POV-Ray mesh and saves that file as
> INC. But the result is horrible: instead of a block with a planetary
> surface, I get a block on the one side and a thin surface on the other
> side (90° angle!), and there are many holes in that landscape. Is there
> any better way to convert STLs into POV? I need a massive block with the
> landscape above, as I want to "dig tunnels" into it, too.
> 
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For obj to pov, use Poseray: https://sites.google.com/view/poseray

Which is - by far - the best converter.

-- 
Thomas


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