Hi to all!

   An update of my "Insert Menu Add-on" for POV-Ray for Win
is available now. It's a bundle of Insert Menu items like
basic scenes, backgrounds, many shapes, isosurfaces, loops,
spline curves, some matrices for sheering and other
transformations, basic animation, samples for visualization
of math 2d functions as well as textures and materials.

   It's now extended by some new templates for shapes like
HF-macros, Parametric Surfaces and some other little additions.

  All items are fully functional code segments, all shapes
are fully textured and have vanilla basic transformations
to make it easier to use the correct syntax  for beginners
and also for advanced users.

For details about the content and for download see here:
http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/addon/insert0.htm
  (en-us, de, fr, it)

An new and largely expanded tutorial with samples
for nearly all "Geometric Shapes in POV-Ray" is online
http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes000e.htm

Also growing: My little collection of
"Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray" which has got some
new houses and some fully animate able cars, trucks,
tracked vehicles and a little helicopter.
For all the items there the according
"Insert Menu" add-ons are available for comfortable use.
For details about my "POV-Ray Objects" see here:
http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/objects/obj_000e.htm


Happy raytracing!

Friedrich A. Lohmueller

Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/

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Thank you for your works,
;-)
Paolo
> "Friedrich Lohmueller" wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
>    An update of my "Insert Menu Add-on" for POV-Ray for Win
> is available now. It's a bundle of Insert Menu items like
> basic scenes, backgrounds, many shapes, isosurfaces, loops,
> spline curves, some matrices for sheering and other
> transformations, basic animation, samples for visualization
> of math 2d functions as well as textures and materials.
>
>    It's now extended by some new templates for shapes like
> HF-macros, Parametric Surfaces and some other little additions.
>
>   All items are fully functional code segments, all shapes
> are fully textured and have vanilla basic transformations
> to make it easier to use the correct syntax  for beginners
> and also for advanced users.
>
> For details about the content and for download see here:
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/addon/insert0.htm
>   (en-us, de, fr, it)
>
> An new and largely expanded tutorial with samples
> for nearly all "Geometric Shapes in POV-Ray" is online
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes000e.htm
>
> Also growing: My little collection of
> "Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray" which has got some
> new houses and some fully animate able cars, trucks,
> tracked vehicles and a little helicopter.
> For all the items there the according
> "Insert Menu" add-ons are available for comfortable use.
> For details about my "POV-Ray Objects" see here:
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/objects/obj_000e.htm
>
>
> Happy raytracing!
>
> Friedrich A. Lohmueller
>
> Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
> Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/
>

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Yust a question...
The include files works fine, but over a certain number of includes I cannot
see the preview while browsing the insert menu voices (POV-Ray
3.6.1a.icl8.win32 built in editor). E.g. I see the preview for the first
2000 insert menu voices and not for the 2001th and following.
There is a way to see all menu icons or there is an internal limit in
Windows editor?
Thank you in advance,
    Paolo


> "Friedrich Lohmueller" wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
>    An update of my "Insert Menu Add-on" for POV-Ray for Win
> is available now. It's a bundle of Insert Menu items like
> basic scenes, backgrounds, many shapes, isosurfaces, loops,
> spline curves, some matrices for sheering and other
> transformations, basic animation, samples for visualization
> of math 2d functions as well as textures and materials.
>
>    It's now extended by some new templates for shapes like
> HF-macros, Parametric Surfaces and some other little additions.
>
>   All items are fully functional code segments, all shapes
> are fully textured and have vanilla basic transformations
> to make it easier to use the correct syntax  for beginners
> and also for advanced users.
>
> For details about the content and for download see here:
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/addon/insert0.htm
>   (en-us, de, fr, it)
>
> An new and largely expanded tutorial with samples
> for nearly all "Geometric Shapes in POV-Ray" is online
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes000e.htm
>
> Also growing: My little collection of
> "Ready-made Objects for POV-Ray" which has got some
> new houses and some fully animate able cars, trucks,
> tracked vehicles and a little helicopter.
> For all the items there the according
> "Insert Menu" add-ons are available for comfortable use.
> For details about my "POV-Ray Objects" see here:
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/objects/obj_000e.htm
>
>
> Happy raytracing!
>
> Friedrich A. Lohmueller
>
> Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
> Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/
>

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Friedrich Lohmueller <Fri### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> An new and largely expanded tutorial with samples
> for nearly all "Geometric Shapes in POV-Ray" is online
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes000e.htm

  Excellent work with that. The visual examples help a lot in clarifying
the parameters which are surely quite obscure to the less experienced
users. This is a good example:
http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes360e.htm

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Friedrich Lohmueller <Fri### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

>    An update of my "Insert Menu Add-on" for POV-Ray for Win
> is available now. It's a bundle of Insert Menu items like
> basic scenes, backgrounds, many shapes, isosurfaces, loops,
> spline curves, some matrices for sheering and other
> transformations, basic animation, samples for visualization
> of math 2d functions as well as textures and materials.

Please note that these insert menu items, except for the preview images,
can be used with the most recent versions of MacMegaPOV as well.

- You can find these at http://megapov.inetart.net/download.html#Mac
- You can not use it with the Aug 24 2005 version, only with the new
universal binary or the PPC G4/G3 version for system 10.3.9 or later.
- You can follow the installation instructions from Friedrich A.
Lohmueller,  the only difference is that you have to choose the location
of the include folder.
To do this, choose the menu "MegaPOV" >> "Preferences..." select the
editor tab in the dialog box and select the folder of your choice.


Enjoy it!

Yvo
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MegaPOV at:  http://megapov.inetart.net
MacMegaPOV at:  http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh
E-mail: yvo### [at] cancel_This_gmxnet

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Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> Yust a question...
> The include files works fine, but over a certain number of includes I cannot
> see the preview while browsing the insert menu voices (POV-Ray
> 3.6.1a.icl8.win32 built in editor). E.g. I see the preview for the first
> 2000 insert menu voices and not for the 2001th and following.
> There is a way to see all menu icons or there is an internal limit in
> Windows editor?
> Thank you in advance,
>     Paolo

Hello Paolo,

I've registered this problem also with all other Windows versions
of POV-Ray up to POV-Ray 3.7beta21a.
I don't remember if the critical number was exactly 2000 but
it may be right in this region.

Unfortunately I don't have a final solution for this problem.
My personal collection of Insert Menu contains over 10000 items.
For a really comfortable use of the Insert Menu there should be
no limits for additional items (except the space on the hard disk !-).

I currently split my Insert Menu in different folders and change
between "Insert Menu", "Insert Menu2", "Insert Menu3" etc. by renaming
the folder I currently need in the POV-Ray Windows editor
via "Insert" - "Edit this menu" - "folders" to folder name "Insert Menu"
which can be browsed with POV-Ray Windows editor.

Another way to live with this problem is to rename the more important
item groups with "Edit this menu" and give these groups higher
prefix numbers.



Friedrich

Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
 > Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/

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Warp wrote:
> Friedrich Lohmueller <Fri### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> 
>>An new and largely expanded tutorial with samples
>>for nearly all "Geometric Shapes in POV-Ray" is online
>>http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes000e.htm
> 
> 
>   Excellent work with that. The visual examples help a lot in clarifying
> the parameters which are surely quite obscure to the less experienced
> users. This is a good example:
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/all_shapes/shapes360e.htm
> 

Thanks for "Excellent work"!

I wish to find a way to make such self explanatory images for all
basic shapes in the Insert Menu.
That would help much by starting on POV-Ray with beginners!


Friedrich

Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
 > Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/

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Yvo Smellenbergh wrote:
> Friedrich Lohmueller <Fri### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> 
> 
>>   An update of my "Insert Menu Add-on" for POV-Ray for Win
>>is available now. It's a bundle of Insert Menu items like
>>basic scenes, backgrounds, many shapes, isosurfaces, loops,
>>spline curves, some matrices for sheering and other
>>transformations, basic animation, samples for visualization
>>of math 2d functions as well as textures and materials.
> 
> 
> Please note that these insert menu items, except for the preview images,
> can be used with the most recent versions of MacMegaPOV as well.
> 
> - You can find these at http://megapov.inetart.net/download.html#Mac
> - You can not use it with the Aug 24 2005 version, only with the new
> universal binary or the PPC G4/G3 version for system 10.3.9 or later.
> - You can follow the installation instructions from Friedrich A.
> Lohmueller,  the only difference is that you have to choose the location
> of the include folder.
> To do this, choose the menu "MegaPOV" >> "Preferences..." select the
> editor tab in the dialog box and select the folder of your choice.
> 
> 
> Enjoy it!
> 
> Yvo

Thanks! Great!

- It's also reported working with POV-Ray for Linux and QTPov-Editor
- See here: http://qtpoveditor.sourceforge.net/


Friedrich

Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
 > Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/

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Splitting InsertMenu and choosing the one I need is a reasonable solution
for me, thank you for your answer,
;-)
Paolo



> "Friedrich Lohmueller" wrote:
>
>
> Paolo Gibellini wrote:
> > Yust a question...
> > The include files works fine, but over a certain number of includes I
cannot
> > see the preview while browsing the insert menu voices (POV-Ray
> > 3.6.1a.icl8.win32 built in editor). E.g. I see the preview for the first
> > 2000 insert menu voices and not for the 2001th and following.
> > There is a way to see all menu icons or there is an internal limit in
> > Windows editor?
> > Thank you in advance,
> >     Paolo
>
> Hello Paolo,
>
> I've registered this problem also with all other Windows versions
> of POV-Ray up to POV-Ray 3.7beta21a.
> I don't remember if the critical number was exactly 2000 but
> it may be right in this region.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have a final solution for this problem.
> My personal collection of Insert Menu contains over 10000 items.
> For a really comfortable use of the Insert Menu there should be
> no limits for additional items (except the space on the hard disk !-).
>
> I currently split my Insert Menu in different folders and change
> between "Insert Menu", "Insert Menu2", "Insert Menu3" etc. by renaming
> the folder I currently need in the POV-Ray Windows editor
> via "Insert" - "Edit this menu" - "folders" to folder name "Insert Menu"
> which can be browsed with POV-Ray Windows editor.
>
> Another way to live with this problem is to rename the more important
> item groups with "Edit this menu" and give these groups higher
> prefix numbers.
>
>
>
> Friedrich
>
> Email:  Fri### [at] t-onlinede
>  > Homepage: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/
>

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"Friedrich Lohmueller" <Fri### [at] t-onlinede> schreef in bericht 
news:469### [at] t-onlinede...
> Hi to all!
>
>   An update of my "Insert Menu Add-on" for POV-Ray for Win
> is available now. It's a bundle of Insert Menu items like
> basic scenes, backgrounds, many shapes, isosurfaces, loops,
> spline curves, some matrices for sheering and other
> transformations, basic animation, samples for visualization
> of math 2d functions as well as textures and materials.
>

Once again, a very deep thanks for your excellent work. Extremely useful and 
sooo easy to use!

Thomas

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