I might get nowhere asking but... does anyone know about why
hamaPatch (the modeller) doesn't Open or Save files and also why
sPatch importing doesn't recognize sPatch files?
Or am I the only one with it happening like it is.
Wish I could read Japanese at the web pages, might help.  Maybe I can
get a translation from it though.
TIA anyone.

Bob
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> I might get nowhere asking but... does anyone know about why
> hamaPatch (the modeller) doesn't Open or Save files and also why
> sPatch importing doesn't recognize sPatch files?
> Or am I the only one with it happening like it is.
> Wish I could read Japanese at the web pages, might help.  Maybe I can
> get a translation from it though.
> TIA anyone.

Hamapatch can open and save files, it just does it through the import and 
export menus, as I don't think the author has decided on a Hamapatch 
specific file format yet (not necessarily a bad thing, given the sheer 
number of perfectly adequate formats out there, like sPatch for one).  
Please note that this is all guesswork :)

As far as not recognising sPatch files, the only files I've had problems 
with using the new version are the example files that came with sPatch, 
and even that was cured by just opening them in sPatch and saving them 
elsewhere as .spt files.

Try looking in this newsgroup for the thread sPatch-Seen it around 
lately? as there has been some discussion of Hamapatch in it.  The first 
message of the thread was posted on the 30th of April this year.

Hope this has been of some use.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom> wrote in message
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|
| Hamapatch can open and save files, it just does it through the import and
| export menus, as I don't think the author has decided on a Hamapatch
| specific file format yet (not necessarily a bad thing, given the sheer
| number of perfectly adequate formats out there, like sPatch for one).
| Please note that this is all guesswork :)
|
| As far as not recognising sPatch files, the only files I've had problems
| with using the new version are the example files that came with sPatch,
| and even that was cured by just opening them in sPatch and saving them
| elsewhere as .spt files.
|
| Try looking in this newsgroup for the thread sPatch-Seen it around
| lately? as there has been some discussion of Hamapatch in it.  The first
| message of the thread was posted on the 30th of April this year.

Thanks.  That's all I needed to hear.  Someone else had already told me
that they could do the File/Import (then OK) to get to *.spt files and open them.
I figured maybe I did something wrong at the time of first run and already
retried that to set up the configuration again with no change.
I was just importing the files from sPatch\Models folder so that must be it.
I'm not much of a sPatch user but I know there's a couple different
ways to save files in that.
I'm sure now I can get it right this time thanks to your reply to me here.  I
really appreciate this.

Bob

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[Snippage]
> Thanks.  That's all I needed to hear.  Someone else had already told me
> that they could do the File/Import (then OK) to get to *.spt files and open them.
> I figured maybe I did something wrong at the time of first run and already
> retried that to set up the configuration again with no change.
> I was just importing the files from sPatch\Models folder so that must be it.
> I'm not much of a sPatch user but I know there's a couple different
> ways to save files in that.
> I'm sure now I can get it right this time thanks to your reply to me here.  I
> really appreciate this.

Nae problem.  

Besides, I only figured out the problem with the example sPatch files 
today myself, since files I'd created from scratch in sPatch loaded fine 
into Hamapatch, but the examples didn't.

Ah well, these things are sent to try us, and in some cases to convict, 
sentence and incarcerate us too, but that's another matter :)

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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Just out of curiousity what does HamaPatch do?




"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:391c38d0@news.povray.org...
> I might get nowhere asking but... does anyone know about why
> hamaPatch (the modeller) doesn't Open or Save files and also why
> sPatch importing doesn't recognize sPatch files?
> Or am I the only one with it happening like it is.
> Wish I could read Japanese at the web pages, might help.  Maybe I can
> get a translation from it though.
> TIA anyone.
>
> Bob
> --
> omniVerse http://users.aol.com/persistenceofv/all.htm
>
>
>

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Ed Kaiser wrote:
> 
>   Just out of curiousity what does HamaPatch do?
> 

I`m not an expert but it seems to be a patch modeller for bezier
patches, like sPatch but under development (unlike sPatch, which 
is a real shame ...).

Marc

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In article <391f0e24@news.povray.org>, eka### [at] camdentdsnet says...
>   Just out of curiousity what does HamaPatch do?
> 
[snip]

It does the same things as sPatch, only moreso :)

And sPatch, in case you by some miracle don't know, is a spline based 
modeller for Win9x which by virtue of it's inspired UI, clear 
functionality and really cheap price <grin> has become almost standard 
POV kit for a lot of people.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom> wrote in message
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| In article <391f0e24@news.povray.org>, eka### [at] camdentdsnet says...
| >   Just out of curiousity what does HamaPatch do?
| >
| [snip]
|
| It does the same things as sPatch, only moreso :)
|
| And sPatch, in case you by some miracle don't know, is a spline based
| modeller for Win9x which by virtue of it's inspired UI, clear
| functionality and really cheap price <grin> has become almost standard
| POV kit for a lot of people.

Yep, and it even has a smidgen of Moray there with the Material editor,
Light, Camera, setup.  sPatch doesn't do anything but the wireframe and
shaded preview modeling.  hamaPatch can even add in a few MegaPov
features like motion blur and who knows what else later on as it continues
to grow.  Hopefully it will grow anyway.

Bob

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