POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : OpenGL to POV : Re: OpenGL to POV Server Time
5 Aug 2024 04:19:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: OpenGL to POV  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 12 Dec 2002 21:26:09
Message: <chrishuff-34D635.21222712122002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <hsi### [at] netplexaussieorg>,
 Henri Sivonen <hsi### [at] niksulahutfi> wrote:

> I need to generate a POV-Ray scene file from a scene that has been 
> programmed in OpenGL. Is there an implementation of the part of the 
> OpenGL API that deals with geometry that would output POV scene files 
> instead of rendering?

As far as I know, there is nothing like that currently in existance. It 
would not be difficult to do for a small subset of OpenGL, but would be 
impossible for the more complex features: OpenGL is just very different 
from the POV scene language, and the algorithm is very different from 
raytracing, many things just don't translate.

-- 
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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