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From: ErI
Subject: A beginner's first questions!
Date: 10 Jun 2000 00:16:35
Message: <3941c123@news.povray.org>

First off I'd like to say hello to everybody.  Now for the questions....

1.  Is POV-Raytracer like C++ and Visual Basic in regards to it having it's
"own" programming language?

2.  If so how can I learn to "program" POV?
     ( I can't find any literature on the language itself)

  I created a wireframe object using sPatch and previewed it with sPatch's
OpenGL preview renderer.  It looked great!  Then I exported it into .pov!  I
then rendered it with POV and it looked horrible.  The OpenGL render was
smooth and was appealing to the eye, but in POV it looked like it was
rendered in 2 bit!!!  really blocky like I had a cheap video card.  The
OpenGL render looked really smooth and professional.  I don't want to give
up on POV just yet because I've seen what others have done with POV and I
was very impressed!!!  Please help!!! Also if someone decides to help but
you need more than a posting will allow you could email me if it isn't too
much trouble!!  My email address is fre### [at] fusenet!!  Any and all
help would greatly be appreciated!!

Sincerely,
Ed

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From: Alan Kong
Subject: Re: A beginner's first questions!
Date: 10 Jun 2000 21:38:38
Message: <67r5kscebdkmn37p21uu15568qrvjoffqd@4ax.com>

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:17:56 -0700 "ErI" <fre### [at] fusenet> wrote:

>First off I'd like to say hello to everybody.  Now for the questions....

  Hi, everyone. This message was posted to multiple groups. Please post
any and all replies to povray.newusers. Replies are already scattered
over different groups. Thanks.

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Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

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