John D. Gwinner wrote:
>>The challenge is
>>to create a converter that exports from Wavefront, renders the hairs in
>>memory, and saves it in the POV-Ray format. I'm working on that myself
>>(hence all the details), but I side-tracked myself. This message might
>>get me back on track this weekend :-)
> 
> 
> Wow, nice.  Let me know if you need a Beta, but I haven't done any dynamic
> hair yet.

Will do! Now I'm gettin' excited again :-)

> I was hoping to use Dynamic hair for a space suited figure I'm working on
> for the IRTC animation round, but I'm thinking I won't make it :(

When is it due? I have much already completed (just not the actual 
output to POV-Ray nor some of the more fancy features... I already have 
the entire Wavefront object loaded into memory (well, actually, except 
for lines)). The program is a Windows32 MFC C/C++ application; if you 
don't have Windows, the work I've done so far won't work. However, I do 
plan to alter the reading engine so that it is in Standard C++ so that I 
can easily port it to Linux.

> The issue I've found with long hair is that it's hard to fit inside a space
> helmet.  I had this feeling dynamic hair would let me cram it in somehow and
> still 'move' but I have to admit I haven't tried it.
> 
>         == John ==

PoseRay creates something called a "poseraylinegroup" -- those thin 
cylinders I talked about. It might be possible to write a quick PERL 
script to do the job on a POV-Ray file already created. Uber-scripters 
like Warp could probably do that in POV-Ray itself :-)
-- 
Respectfully,
Dan P
http://<broken link>

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