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From: Marcus Ertl
Subject: rendering humans and animals
Date: 25 Mar 1999 09:32:59
Message: <36FA4BF1.2FB92E7F@physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Hi!
  I'm looking for a program, which allows me, to model and change
poses of humans, animals and fantasy-liveforms. (just like Poser3 do).
It should write pov-code or a format I can easy convert to PoV.

It would be very nice, if it would be a cheap or free program, or a
demo version, because I need it only for one projekt, and I'm just a
not so rich student.

by
  Marcus

--
Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom.
                               --- Konfuzius

LARP-Welt:       http://larp-welt.de/
ww.wisulizer:    http://wwwisulizer.hypermart.net/


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From: Johannes Hubert
Subject: Re: rendering humans and animals
Date: 25 Mar 1999 10:56:36
Message: <36fa5cb4.0@news.povray.org>
Marcus Ertl wrote in message <36FA4BF1.2FB92E7F@physik.tu-darmstadt.de>...
>Hi!
>  I'm looking for a program, which allows me, to model and change
>poses of humans, animals and fantasy-liveforms. (just like Poser3 do).
>It should write pov-code or a format I can easy convert to PoV.
>
>It would be very nice, if it would be a cheap or free program, or a
>demo version, because I need it only for one projekt, and I'm just a
>not so rich student.


You raise the bar quite it bit, don't you? ;-)

"Model and pose humans, animals and liveforms", "Output to POV", "Cheap or
even free"...

Why not "Cook my dinner" and "Call my Mom" while we are at it?
;=)

Johannes.

P.S.
Sorry, couldn't resist, but I don't think that you will find what you are
looking for.


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From: Marcus Ertl
Subject: Re: rendering humans and animals
Date: 25 Mar 1999 11:22:02
Message: <36FA657F.944A545E@physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Hi!

Johannes Hubert wrote:

> You raise the bar quite it bit, don't you? ;-)
> "Model and pose humans, animals and liveforms", "Output to POV", "Cheap or
> even free"...
> Why not "Cook my dinner" and "Call my Mom" while we are at it?
> ;=)

If it would make coffee for me, while i'm working in lab, it would very
fine. ;o) And washing my clothes and cleaning my room would nice do...
;o)
 
> Johannes.
> P.S.
> Sorry, couldn't resist, but I don't think that you will find what you are
> looking for.

I'm afraid, you are right. But I need the program only for one projekt,
and it would to expensive for me to buy Poser for this projekt. And
nobody I know has Poser, so I can't work on an friends computer... :o(

What I need is a good render of an werewolf or an elf or something like
that fantastic things, holding a torch, an pen, or something like that,
because a friend of my, and me, we won't to found an Web-Award for
german Roleplaying-Sites (a real Award, not one of this things everyone
can have.)

by
  Marcus
--
Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom.
                               --- Konfuzius

LARP-Welt:       http://larp-welt.de/
Tagtraum:        http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/~st002556/
ww.wisulizer:    http://wwwisulizer.hypermart.net/


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: rendering humans and animals
Date: 25 Mar 1999 11:54:40
Message: <36FA695A.2A9FC764@pacbell.net>
Marcus Ertl wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> > You raise the bar quite it bit, don't you? ;-)
> > "Model and pose humans, animals and liveforms", "Output to POV", "Cheap or
> > even free"...
> > Why not "Cook my dinner" and "Call my Mom" while we are at it?
> > ;=)
> 
> If it would make coffee for me, while i'm working in lab, it would very
> fine. ;o) And washing my clothes and cleaning my room would nice do...
> ;o)
> 
> > Johannes.
> > P.S.
> > Sorry, couldn't resist, but I don't think that you will find what you are
> > looking for.
> 
> I'm afraid, you are right. But I need the program only for one projekt,
> and it would to expensive for me to buy Poser for this projekt. And
> nobody I know has Poser, so I can't work on an friends computer... :o(
> 
> What I need is a good render of an werewolf or an elf or something like
> that fantastic things, holding a torch, an pen, or something like that,
> because a friend of my, and me, we won't to found an Web-Award for
> german Roleplaying-Sites (a real Award, not one of this things everyone
> can have.)
> 
> by
>   Marcus


Take a look at the three sites below. All three have high quality 3D
models available for free and some of the models might be the type be
that you are looking for. You may have to search a little bit for the
right sections whre the models are but they are there if you look hard
enough.

 How you will pose them is something I cannot
help you with but a little imagination and the correct lighting will
hide many little mistakes or things you don't want seen.

http://www.serious3d.com

http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/server/blnk.html

http://www.mediom.qc.ca/creator-studio/3d-depot/main.html

If you do not have a good 3D file converter try 3Dwin which can convert
most popular 3D file formats to Pov-Ray format files.

http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/homepage.htm

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Marcus Ertl
Subject: Re: rendering humans and animals
Date: 25 Mar 1999 12:12:59
Message: <36FA7165.15EB2D4C@physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Ken wrote:

Hi!

> Take a look at the three sites below. All three have high quality 3D
> [...snippy...]
> Ken Tyler

Thank you very much! That realy helps me, but the problem, how I will
alter the pose of the still remains! :o( The figures are all in this
leonardo da vinci-like pose, with spread legs and arms, but in this
pose, I can't use them.... And I know no easy way to edit poses without
Poser! :o(

bye and thank you!
Marcus

--
Nur tote Fische schwimmen mit dem Strom.
                               --- Konfuzius

LARP-Welt:       http://larp-welt.de/
Tagtraum:        http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/~st002556/
ww.wisulizer:    http://wwwisulizer.hypermart.net/


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From: Cliff Bowman
Subject: Re: rendering humans and animals
Date: 28 Mar 1999 10:02:40
Message: <36fe38ff.7830982@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:24:53 +0100, Marcus Ertl
<mar### [at] physiktu-darmstadtde> wrote:

>Ken wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>> Take a look at the three sites below. All three have high quality 3D
>> [...snippy...]
>> Ken Tyler
>
>Thank you very much! That realy helps me, but the problem, how I will
>alter the pose of the still remains! :o( The figures are all in this
>leonardo da vinci-like pose, with spread legs and arms, but in this
>pose, I can't use them.... And I know no easy way to edit poses without
>Poser! :o(
>
POV-Ray is really a remarkable program. Most of the world works like
this:- the easier a thing is to use, or the better it's results, or
the more attractive the item is for some other reason - the mre
expensive it is. The harder a thing is to use, or the lower the
quality, or.. and so on .. the cheaper it is.

You're after some of the most complex, difficult, expensive features
(furr on a werewolf anyone? Posing humans and fantasy creatures ?)
with the minimum amount of effort at little or no cost. I wish you the
best of luck (and as it happens I'd like exactly the same features
cheap or free too) but don't be surprised if you find you have to
compromise either on ease-of-use or quality (or possibly both).

POV is remarkable in that it's certainly easier to use than it could
be (it's not a modeller), it produces superb results if you put enough
effort in (or borrow someone else's efforts - like macro and .inc file
creators) and it's not only cheap - it's FREE. Not even a $15
registration fee or somesuch.


Cheers,

Cliff Bowman
Why not pay my 3D Dr Who site a visit at
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/7855/
PS change ".duffnet" to ".net" if replying via e-mail


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: rendering humans and animals
Date: 28 Mar 1999 10:21:04
Message: <36FE47C9.19980F6A@pacbell.net>
Cliff Bowman wrote:

> POV-Ray is really a remarkable program. Most of the world works like
> this:- the easier a thing is to use, or the better it's results, or
> the more attractive the item is for some other reason - the mre
> expensive it is. The harder a thing is to use, or the lower the
> quality, or.. and so on .. the cheaper it is.
> 
> You're after some of the most complex, difficult, expensive features
> (furr on a werewolf anyone? Posing humans and fantasy creatures ?)
> with the minimum amount of effort at little or no cost. I wish you the
> best of luck (and as it happens I'd like exactly the same features
> cheap or free too) 

 Yes please tell me where I can find such software as would be needed
to accomplish all of these wonderful things for free and I will delete
my 100 meg utilities/modelers directory and use it exclusivly. 

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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