Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > 1.  Rephrase this as, "Should you use procedural modeling?"
>
>   "You can perform procedural modeling with POV-Ray" would indeed be a
> lot more accurate than saying "POV-Ray is a modeler", which would be
> confusing. If someone doesn't understand what "procedural modeling" is,
> he can google it.
>

Amen! I wish everyone who wants to give a 20 word description of povray would
say, "Povray is a renderer.  It is not a GUI modeler, but has tremendous
procedural modeling capabilities in its scripting language."


>  So what if the SDL is not a modeler? Why do you even care?
>  Does that stop you from creating scenes with SDL?
>  Why does it bother you?

Because I know I have never been interested in eke-ing out the last possible
drop of photorealism possible models made with $$-ware applications. I think
potential users such as myself would turn away from the program if they thought
its only use were such.

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