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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Object Placement Include File v0.994
Date: 26 Jun 1999 00:40:27
Message: <377459bb@news.povray.org>
I have just completed a POV-Ray include file for the POV-Ray SuperPatch that
will do one of the functions of the Genesis Toolkit, namely, place objects
on the surface of a heightfield.  However, the include file can use any
object as the base, not just heightfields, and has some additional options
that the Toolkit does not have.

It will be available at my homepage,
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Program/9231/
as soon as GeoCities comes back online.

If anyone wants to make a copy available for download from their web site,
please send me an e-mail informing me.

Mark

PS.  I'm not sure how recent a version of the SuperPatch is needed to use
the include file.  The only special SuperPatch function it uses is 'trace'.


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Object Placement Include File v0.994
Date: 26 Jun 1999 07:34:46
Message: <3774BB2D.C23F4C96@pacbell.net>
Mark Wagner wrote:
> 
> I have just completed a POV-Ray include file for the POV-Ray SuperPatch that
> will do one of the functions of the Genesis Toolkit, namely, place objects
> on the surface of a heightfield.  However, the include file can use any
> object as the base, not just heightfields, and has some additional options
> that the Toolkit does not have.

  Thank you for sharing this with us. I do have one question to ask:

  If for example you wished to place verticle standing cylinders across
the surface of the HF will this macro normalize the angle of each cylinder
to the angle of the surface at the point of intersection or will is stay
oriented to it's original direction ?

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Lance Birch
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Object Placement Include File v0.994
Date: 26 Jun 1999 10:55:03
Message: <3774e9c7@news.povray.org>
Looks to me like the objects will keep their original orientation

I could be (and have been) wrong however.

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Ken wrote in message <3774BB2D.C23F4C96@pacbell.net>...
>
>
>Mark Wagner wrote:
>>
>> I have just completed a POV-Ray include file for the POV-Ray SuperPatch
that
>> will do one of the functions of the Genesis Toolkit, namely, place
objects
>> on the surface of a heightfield.  However, the include file can use any
>> object as the base, not just heightfields, and has some additional
options
>> that the Toolkit does not have.
>
>  Thank you for sharing this with us. I do have one question to ask:
>
>  If for example you wished to place verticle standing cylinders across
>the surface of the HF will this macro normalize the angle of each cylinder
>to the angle of the surface at the point of intersection or will is stay
>oriented to it's original direction ?
>
>--
>Ken Tyler
>
>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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From: Ron Parker
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Object Placement Include File v0.994
Date: 26 Jun 1999 15:07:32
Message: <3776255d.733212440@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:39:24 -0400, "Mark Wagner"
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

>PS.  I'm not sure how recent a version of the SuperPatch is needed to use
>the include file.  The only special SuperPatch function it uses is 'trace'.

In that case, any version that's actually been made available publicly
should work.


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From: Lewis
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Object Placement Include File v0.994
Date: 26 Jun 1999 19:25:23
Message: <37756110.BB8C9DCB@netvision.net.il>
This reminds me, I wander about that napkin include file someone was
doing around here...how is it going? Is it still going? Is it done?


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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Object Placement Include File v0.994
Date: 27 Jun 1999 01:20:48
Message: <3775b4b0@news.povray.org>
>>  If for example you wished to place verticle standing cylinders across
>>the surface of the HF will this macro normalize the angle of each cylinder
>>to the angle of the surface at the point of intersection or will is stay
>>oriented to it's original direction ?
>>Looks to me like the objects will keep their original orientation
>
>I could be (and have been) wrong however.


Currently, they will keep their original orientation.  I am working on this
option for a future version.

My homepage is now working and the file can be downloaded from there.

Mark


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