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From: oddish
Subject: 3dmax pov-ray
Date: 25 Jan 2006 08:40:00
Message: <web.43d77f42bab107963b24c6160@news.povray.org>
HEllo all. Iam a novice in your community, please forgive me for stupid
questions. I need to know, can I use pov-ray for rendering scenes, that be
created in 3dmax? If yes, than i need to know can pov-ray do that if he
work under linux? If 1 and 2 answers no, then for me very interesting
posible that or not? If yes, then what products can do this job?


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From: Txemi Jendrix
Subject: Re: 3dmax pov-ray
Date: 25 Jan 2006 17:16:53
Message: <43d7f8d5@news.povray.org>
oddish wrote:

> HEllo all. Iam a novice in your community, please forgive me for stupid
> questions. I need to know, can I use pov-ray for rendering scenes, that be
> created in 3dmax? If yes, than i need to know can pov-ray do that if he
> work under linux? If 1 and 2 answers no, then for me very interesting
> posible that or not? If yes, then what products can do this job?

1 & 2.- You can use Povray for rendering scenes created in 3dmax. You have
to save the scene in .3ds format and convert it to .pov format with a
program like Poseray: 
http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/
Though Poseray is a Windows program, it works under Linux using Wine.

Hope this helps
-- 
Txemi Jendrix.
Povray and CG: www.txemijendrix.com
Music: www.losmiercoles.net


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From: Stefan Viljoen
Subject: Re: 3dmax pov-ray
Date: 26 Jan 2006 00:45:58
Message: <43d86215@news.povray.org>
oddish spake:

> HEllo all. Iam a novice in your community, please forgive me for stupid
> questions. I need to know, can I use pov-ray for rendering scenes, that be
> created in 3dmax? If yes, than i need to know can pov-ray do that if he
> work under linux? If 1 and 2 answers no, then for me very interesting
> posible that or not? If yes, then what products can do this job?

If you just want to do some patch modelling, you can also try Blender (which
runs natively under Linux - http://www.blender3d.org

Blender is free, unlike 3DSMax.

Its output can be directly exported to PovRay using various export scripts
written for it, or you can output its models and textures using the
built-in .OBJ (WaveFront) format, and then convert them for use using
PoseRay. As Txemi says, PoseRay runs under Wine, inside Linux.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions


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