ShiJie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering. Why doesn't PovRay support .obj files (to import in the
> scenes), I am actually not certain if it really doesn't. But currently when
> I make a 3D model that requires a modeller and when I try saving it as
> ..pov, I see how big the file becomes as compared to .obj. Since the .pov
> are text-based this will naturally be always bigger.

.obj files are text format as well - they will not be significantly 
smaller than a mesh2.  If the files your modeller generates are much 
larger the program is simply inefficient.  Concerning why POV-Ray does 
not support any binary geometry files read:

http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/filesQandT.html#binarymeshdata

Christoph

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