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> Anyway, you did the right thing, contacted the team and asked their 
> permission. You didn't get the awnser you hoped for, so be it. Others 
> probably do it differently, they steal the code and use it anyway. What 
> do you prefer, To still be able to output POV-SDL from your application 
> to render with POV-Ray, or being a thief?

Most peoples would called me stupid, it would be quite easy to reduce, 
change a bit, and recompile source code to hide it's origins. But thats not 
my way :)

> Use your energie to write your application, not on "what could have been 
> if ..."

Client had accepted my new idea of 3d visualization after all :)

I will use pre-rendered objects to put them on izometric 3D view. Some 
special objects, like walls I will render myself. I will add some lighting 
algorithms. So I will write own 3d engine, that will used sprites (bitmaps) 
with pre-rendered objects from Pov-Ray.

I hope to achive image quality simmilar to that from The Simms game, (but 
in higher resolution and with any type of rooms, also not-rectangular).

Signing of contract would be on monday probably, wish me luck ;)

Oh, and I will anyway put thoes Pov-RAY logos there, and in sooner or later 
version - add .pov output, perhaps I will also add small changes to Pov 
source to implement few special output formats (like - exporting the shadow 
map and z-buffer) and I will try to make some part of my furniture objects 
freeware. 


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http://www.raf256.com/3d/
Rafal Maj 'Raf256', home page - http://www.raf256.com/me/
Computer Graphics

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