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> Just because POV lacks many features doesn't stop people using it to make
> movies. A group called the Internet Movie Project is doing just that.
You
> just have to work a bit harder at it, that's all.
you shouldn't have to, that's the point.
it would be nice if povray included all the features of the top end
commercial render engines, and it stopped being seen as a hobbyists toy and
more of a powerful professional tool.
Rick
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"Rick" <ric### [at] kitty5 com> wrote in message news:39589c54@news.povray.org...
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> > Just because POV lacks many features doesn't stop people using it to
make
> > movies. A group called the Internet Movie Project is doing just that.
> You
> > just have to work a bit harder at it, that's all.
>
> you shouldn't have to, that's the point.
>
> it would be nice if povray included all the features of the top end
> commercial render engines, and it stopped being seen as a hobbyists toy
and
> more of a powerful professional tool.
>
There are two parts to this: what is wrong with povray as a render engine
and what is wrong with povray as a modeller/scene animator?
As a render engine, I dare say there are some deficiencies (bugs, missing
functions, etc), but I would hazard a guess that, overall, it has more
features than any other render engine, commercial or otherwise.
As a modeller and scene animator, well it isn't meant to be one. Nothing to
stop someone writing a fully-featured modeller/animator that intergrates
with POV - it has support for animation, etc. and no rewrites would be
necessery of the POV code - but that is not the intent of the program as
such.
Just out of curiousity, if someone was to write a modeller that intergrated
with POV, could they release it commercially, or would the fact that it
output POV scene code prohibit this?
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Tom Melly wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, if someone was to write a modeller that intergrated
> with POV, could they release it commercially, or would the fact that it
> output POV scene code prohibit this?
As long as the POV-Ray rendering engine remains a seperate called
program and no monies are collected for its inclusion there are no
problems. If the engine were bundled and sold as part of the modelling
program it would violate the POV-Ray licencing agreement and the
POV-Team would take exception to this activity.
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Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/
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