Hi,

I have following problem: I'd like to add some czech
text to scene, but we have some "strange" characters
in our alphabet (we use Central European fonts) and
I'm not able put these characters into scene. I have fonts with these
characters, but I guess they have higher numbers then 255, because I
tried to make a scene with table of characters 0-255 using chr() but
those I need weren't there. Had anyone solved simmilar problem? Not
necessarily with czech, I think that the same problem must be in a lot
of other languages.

Thanks for any advice

Petr, men### [at] centrumcz

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men### [at] centrumcz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have following problem: I'd like to add some czech
> text to scene, but we have some "strange" characters
> in our alphabet (we use Central European fonts) and
> I'm not able put these characters into scene. I have fonts with these
> characters, but I guess they have higher numbers then 255, because I
> tried to make a scene with table of characters 0-255 using chr() but
> those I need weren't there. Had anyone solved simmilar problem? Not
> necessarily with czech, I think that the same problem must be in a lot
> of other languages.
> 
> Thanks for any advice

It is a common problem with the official version of the program. Unless
you make your own fonts with the characters you need in the range of
0-125 you won't be able to render them with Pov. There are two patched
versions of POV-Ray that will let you use some unicode fonts that might
be able to do what you want but you will have to be happy with running
an unofficial version of the program to use that feature.

You can read more about the problem  and look at one of the patches
at this site:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/unipatch/

and I am pretty sure the patch above is also available in the
MegaPov patched version of POV-Ray available at:

http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

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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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Another solution could be to use elefont (http://www.armanisoft.ch/).
You can export all the text (or just the letter you need) into
dxf, after you convert it into inc (mesh) with crossroad 
(http://www.europa.com/~keithr/crossroads/) or 3Dwin 
(http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/). Mesh are really (really!) faster 
to render :). I hope that elefont can handle your rebel characters :).

Fabian.


> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have following problem: I'd like to add some czech
> text to scene, but we have some "strange" characters
> in our alphabet (we use Central European fonts) and
> I'm not able put these characters into scene. I have fonts with these
> characters, but I guess they have higher numbers then 255, because I
> tried to make a scene with table of characters 0-255 using chr() but
> those I need weren't there. Had anyone solved simmilar problem? Not
> necessarily with czech, I think that the same problem must be in a lot
> of other languages.
> 
> Thanks for any advice
> 
> Petr, men### [at] centrumcz
> 
> --
>  -  men### [at] centrumcz

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Fabian BRAU wrote:
> 
> Another solution could be to use elefont (http://www.armanisoft.ch/).
> You can export all the text (or just the letter you need) into
> dxf, after you convert it into inc (mesh) with crossroad
> (http://www.europa.com/~keithr/crossroads/) or 3Dwin
> (http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/). Mesh are really (really!) faster
> to render :). I hope that elefont can handle your rebel characters :).

The only down side to this method is that the .dxf and .pov files
produced can be very large. If you only do this once in a while it
is ok but if you are going to produce a lot of files this way they
will consume a lot of hard drive space.

-- 
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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> 
> The only down side to this method is that the .dxf and .pov files
> produced can be very large. If you only do this once in a while it
> is ok but if you are going to produce a lot of files this way they
> will consume a lot of hard drive space.
> 

You can make an include for each character define as object like this
you have something like 26 (or a bit more for special charater) include
file which will not be so big :). I am correct or I missed something
here?
(Perhaps it more difficult the place the character than use ttf but I
use
Moray so...). Moreover in this case, it is just for some special
characters
so this could be interesting :).

Fabian.

> --
> 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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