In article <3e6e0ce3@news.povray.org>, nek### [at] swirvecom says...
> Hi,
> 
> I've just started playing around with POV-Ray by going through the tutorials
> (and being overwhelmed), but I'm really not a big fan of the concept of
> creating a scene using the SDL - is Moray a great way to use POV-Ray for
> creating scenes of any complexity? Are there any drawbacks to using Moray
> rather than POVRay by itself (apart from the shareware licence).
> 
> My current plan is to get the hang of everything in the "Beginning Tutorial"
> section (basic shapes, CSG, lighting etc) and see if I'm still enjoying
> myself!
> 
> cheers,
> 
> --
> cheers,
> neko_
> 
> 
Moray is useful, but some tweaking 'may' be needed to the final SDL. Why? 
Because Moray uses approximations of objects. Neither OpenGL or its 
wireframe system give a 100% accurate positional match to where things go 
in it. This is imho a drawback, since you still have to know exactly 
where something needs to be in order for all of it to line up correctly. 
Since all objects in Moray appear in a specific default alignment, things 
like cylinders that you can normally create in the SDL by giving their 
'exact' end points requires trying to rotate them in Moray. This 
sometimes just won't work right, no matter how careful you are about 
trying to rotate it into position. Personally I prefer the pure SDL in 
most cases, since I end up doing as much work getting stuff right in 
Moray as I do hand coding in some cases. However, it seems to have been 
improved since the last version I tried, even if annoying quirks like the 
cylinder issue has yet to be properly addressed imho.

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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