On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:42:20 -0500, "Wu Yang" <wya### [at] cswrightedu>
wrote:

>Hi, all
>  I am a new animation designer. I want to design a tank which round with a
>hill. Where can I get some souces about hill and tank objects? Thanks

A Tank is quite a complex thing to model, especially for one who is
just starting to use PovRay.  You can code it directly into PovRay or
you can use a Modeller such as Moray
http://www.stmuc.com/moray/index.html 
or Blender  http://www.blender3d.org/  to build it using a graphical
interface. Blender is free and Moray is shareware (80 euros). I use
Moray it is very good worth the price and getting better. A word of
warning do not use a Modeller without learning the basics of  PovRay
or you will regret it. Try to build your tank out of two boxes and a
cylinder then animate it to start with.
As for models of tanks, and all things military try this site for
meshes. 
http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/military.asp , look for 3DS and convert it
with 3DWin  http://www.tb-software.com/

Best of luck and I hope you have plenty of time.  

Stephen

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