Hello,

I was just trying to learn rhino (making a mobile phone) and then experted
it to POVRAY. Now the problem is that rhino generates a mesh and exports to
POVRAY as smooth triangles; and not solids. Is that true? How can I get
solids?

Anyway... now for a bit more of POVRAY help. I made a button (for the mobile
phone) and then a thin solid covering the button... (made that in rhino)....
now I was to give a green glow to the buttonand then a tecture map with the
number cut out so that the green glow goes through the number cutout. The
thin coovering button should be transparent........ How can I get the bottom
button to have a green glow in the first place. Should I use media... if so
then how do I start?

Thanks in advance!

BR.Saadat

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"Saadat Saeed" <saa### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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>
> I was just trying to learn rhino (making a mobile phone) and then experted
> it to POVRAY. Now the problem is that rhino generates a mesh and exports
to
> POVRAY as smooth triangles; and not solids. Is that true? How can I get
> solids?

Think MegaPov is the answer, but I couldn't say for sure.

> Anyway... now for a bit more of POVRAY help. I made a button (for the
mobile
> phone) and then a thin solid covering the button... (made that in
rhino)....
> now I was to give a green glow to the buttonand then a tecture map with
the
> number cut out so that the green glow goes through the number cutout. The
> thin coovering button should be transparent........ How can I get the
bottom
> button to have a green glow in the first place. Should I use media... if
so
> then how do I start?

media would make sense only if you wanted the glow to extend beyond the
button surface, otherwise I think a high ambient finish could suffice.

Bob H.

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Saadat Saeed <saa### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I was just trying to learn rhino (making a mobile phone) and then experted
> it to POVRAY. Now the problem is that rhino generates a mesh and exports
to
> POVRAY as smooth triangles; and not solids. Is that true? How can I get
> solids?

Rhino only exports as mesh. Using megapov you can get a solid mesh
that can be used in CSG, but you can't get pov primatives (sphere, box...)
from rhino.

Gail
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