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From: scsa316
Subject: hello
Date: 5 Jun 2000 12:12:03
Message: <393bd153$1@news.povray.org>
hi! i am very new to POV ray and am amazed at the things i see done with
it....i have 2 questions though... once i download macros what do i do with
them so that i may use them and when i download a modle, where do i go from
there?  Any help appreciated.  TIA!

~*~Lady Lex~*~


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: hello
Date: 5 Jun 2000 12:32:14
Message: <393BD58F.1D403BD9@pacbell.net>
scsa316 wrote:
> 
> hi! i am very new to POV ray and am amazed at the things i see done with
> it....i have 2 questions though... once i download macros what do i do with
> them so that i may use them and when i download a modle, where do i go from
> there?  Any help appreciated.  TIA!
> 
> ~*~Lady Lex~*~

Hi,

 On my home page I have a large collection of Macro files and a great
many of the files in the .zip have an example of how to use them
included. Follow the first link in my sig.

 As far as models are concerned it depends on what type of model you
are talking about. If it is a POV-Ray model in a .pov or .inc file
you can simply include it in your scene file. If it is in another
format such as .dxf or .3ds then you will need to convert it into
a format that POv-Ray can recogonize. This is usually done by a
3rd party software which will convert the model into a union or
mesh of triangles. Two very good utilities for this are 3DWin
and Crossroads -

http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/
http://www.europa.com/~keithr/crossroads/

-- 
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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