In article <3a382eaf@news.povray.org>, "Tony[B]" 
<ben### [at] panamac-comnet> wrote:

> Can you make a patch for reading directly from 3DS and other file 
> formats directly? :)

That's a bit different from tesselating an object... :-)
A similar syntax could be used, though...especially if you ignore 
texturing information and only read geometry:
model_file {
    FORMAT "filename.FORMAT"
    ...maybe stuff for resizing to fit in a specified bounding box(which 
could save much guesswork with scaling), converting from different 
"handedness"(though that could be done just as well with a 
transformation), etc...also maybe a way to extract specific parts of 
files containing multiple models...
    ...usual modifiers and options...
}

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